Regarding Hernando de Soto’s “The Real Enemy for Trump Is Mercantilism, Not Globalism”: The problem isn’t mercantilism, it’s bad government.

In truth, mercantilism has never been as dead as economists thought, nor is it necessarily as misguided as they insist. Thanks to Smith’s followers, laissez-faire and free trade often did find ...

Mercantilism made Europe’s colonial powers poorer. Trump is trying a modern version anyway. May 6, 2025. 5 min (Washington Post illustration; iStock) 5 min. By Kate Andrews.

Today's high priests of economic foofoo actively promote a narrative: that our mainstream economic understanding is the culmination of decades of steady improvement and research. Earlier times ...

Mercantilism drove certain brutal activities, including slavery and an imbalanced system of trade. Colonies faced periods of inflation and excessive taxation, which caused great distress.

Mercantilism For Dummies has taken your 401(k) hostage. Story by Tiana Lowe Doescher, Washington Examiner • 44m. T he White House waited until after the closing bell on the afternoon of April 2 ...

Italy’s Meloni defends Vance’s Munich speech chastising Europe. The Italian prime minister said that Europe has been “sacrificed on the altar of wokeness, bureaucracy and mercantilism.” ...

Mercantilism is often associated with Donald Trump's economic policies. Can reaching back into the past truly make America great again? That is up for debate. For those few of us familiar with the ...

Samuel Gregg clearly lays out the illogic at the center of the mercantilist worldview, and then provides the cure to that illogic, as propounded by Adam Smith in Book IV of The Wealth of Nations.

Economic and political factors have had a profound influence on Pakistan's foreign policy. On the international scene, mercantilism has always been a decisive and major part of development and trade.

Mercantilism 2.0, the economic manifestation of multipolarity, is streaking across the geostrategic firmament. The sun has set on globalization, the economic manifestation of a unipolar world ...