Which of the following is the best definition of mercantilism?
a) Successful nations manufacture their own goods and produce their own food, rather than buying products made or grown by others.
b) Successful nations make a point of maintaining good economic relations with their allies, especially when buying food and manufactured products.
Consider This: Mercantilists always worried about a state becoming impoverished or indebted. See 4.1: The New World Economy.
c) Successful nations must always try to interfere with the economic prosperity of others; in the colonies, this means using privateers and smugglers.
Consider This: Mercantilists always worried about a state becoming impoverished or indebted. See 4.1: The New World Economy.
d) Successful nations are able to insist that weaker nations purchase food and products from them, since it will make the weaker nations dependent on the stronger ones.
Consider This: Mercantilists always worried about a state becoming impoverished or indebted. See 4.1: The New World Economy.
a) Successful nations manufacture their own goods and produce their own food, rather than buying products made or grown by others.
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