Download or read book Mercantilist Theory and Practice Vol 1 written by Lars Magnusson and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2024-10-28 with total page 445 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 'England is a nation of shopkeepers'. Long before Napolean disdainfully paraphrased Adam Smith, British commerce had become a motor for economic growth and increased state power. This four-volume facsimile edition brings together a range of rare seventeenth- and eighteenth-century documents about the mercantile system.