Heckscher regarded the general characteristics of mercantilist economic thought and policy as the focus of his interest, and one of his principal aims
was to dispel the popular misconception that, because the mercantilist writers were usually preoccupied with the solution to pressing practical problems. He mentioned ‘Through this, mercantilism became not only a specific type of economic policy,
but, even more, a characteristic body of economic ideas; for the views as to what constituted the best means were rooted in conscious or unconscious
interpretations of the tendencies of economic life
we can see mercantilist is took as a economic ideas has a long history.
I am no a fun of mercantilists and the whole idea of classes - people should be equal.
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