MERCANTILISM AND ITS ROLE IN FORMATION AND DEVELOPMENT OF THE MODERN CAPITALIST ECONOMY AND THE WORLD MARKET
Autor (i): Ion Gr. Ionescu1 Olivia Samoilă2
JEL: B11
Cuvinte cheie: mercantilism, current of thought, economic program,, trad, gold, silver
Abstract:
Abstract
The universe has always been in a continuous dynamic and it was the ideas that represented the germs
that produced, over time, changes from the most varied, from the simple to the structural, with extremely
valuable consequences for populations, peoples and nations. Therefore, we dare say that economic thinking is
the forerunner and locomotive that generated transformations, truly revolutionary, hard to anticipate, in the
early years of capitalism, with really serious and profound movements. Mercantilism was an easy-to-understand
economic theory that allowed intuition and imagination to heat the minds of those with an entrepreneurial spirit,
but not without the knowledge of the monarchs of the time who not only proved interested in the new current of
thought, also sponsored its implementation