Word: mercantilist
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Dates: during 1915-1915
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...have become so complex and interwoven that any injury to the trade or industry of one country is sure to do harm to every other. The belief that a "place in the sun" is constituted by holding colonies has long since been discarded by economists along with other such mercantilist notions. It is too evidently still held today as a part of the "governmental mind" so brilliantly analyzed by Lowes Dickinson. It is a remnant of that habit which leads men to think of nations, of certain colored portions of the map, and not of individuals, as ends in themselves...