The Mercantile System and its Historical Significance
The Mercantile System and its Historical Significance
by Gustav Schmoller
English edition 1897
A chapter from Studien uber die wirthschaftliche Politik
Friedrichs des Grossen, published in German, 1884.
To pass judgment as economists upon a whole historical period necessarily involves a comparison of it with what preceded and what followed; involves, that is to say, our understanding it as occupying a place in some larger movement of economic evolution. One natur ...