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Mercantilism theories did not cause European nations to abandon their overseas colonies. Mercantilism, in fact, motivated colonial expansion and war.
European countries mostly, in France Jean-Baptist Colbert was the main advocate of mercantilism
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European Union Politics was created in 2000.
The difference between liberalism and mercantilism is economics driving politics v.s. politics driving economics. The liberals view of economics and politics as discrete, and very different. Mercantilists grant primacy through politics within the exclusion of all else. That's the real difference--ideological, not economical.
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The mercantilism system was an economic system prevalent in the 17th and 18th centuries. It relied on the European countries deriving wealth from their colonies.
The European States pursued a policy of mercantilism in the 15th-18th centuries because they believed that it would improve the economies at the metropole.
because it was in favor of the British Mercantilism was the economic philosophy underlying early European colonial policy. The object of mercantilism was to increase the wealth of the Mother Country (England) in gold and silver.
Mercantilism was the idea behind the colonization of North America. Europe colonized in North America for profit.