English-Portuguese translations for mercantilism

• mercantilismo
  É, em todo o caso, uma expressão de um mercantilismo que acredito ser prejudicial. It is, in any event, an expression of a mercantilism that I believe to be damaging.
  Considero razoável não cedermos ao mercantilismo em domínios nos quais não opera a lógica do mercado. I believe it is rational not to surrender to mercantilism the areas where market logic does not operate.

Definition of mercantilism

• The theory that a nation must always have a positive balance of trade, in the manner that a merchant would operate a shop. Typically this model presupposes protectionism

Related words

• mercantilist
• mercantilistic
• neomercantilism