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The Role of Mercantilism in Modern Economics
The basis of modern economics is built on that critique but it's a question of what you read into it. Smith and Hume won this argument and for the better part of the following 230 years people have essentially said there are gains to free trade. Culvertism in France and cameraism in Germany are examples of that. In France it's principally associated with Culvert, who's the finance minister under Louis XIV.