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‘The novelty in sixteenth-century mercantilism its extension from city to nation and the transfer of its chief agency from local guilt to national monarch.’ Comment in about 200 words.

  • UPSC 1986
  • Industrialization

Mercantilism was not a new impulse to regulate trade for wealth and power — it was an old impulse relocated to a new, larger stage.

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  • From City to Nation: The Scale of Regulation
  • From Guild to Monarch: The Shift in Agency

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