Mercantilist
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an economic theory developed in the 16th to 18th centuries holding that a government should control the economy and that a nation should increase its wealth by selling more than it buys from other nations
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the idea that a countrys government should try to influence trade and business, especially by encouraging exports and putting limits on imports:
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