"This article seeks to understand mercantilism not as an elite philosophy, but as a process of interaction between private interests that stretched beyond London across England and the wider world, in which contribution to the public interest was asserted primarily by the capacity of a trade to support domestic employment in an increasingly global economy."

Hugo Bromley, England’s Mercantilism: Trading Companies, Employment and the Politics of Trade in Global History, 1688–1704, The English Historical Review, 2023;, cead177, https://doi.org/10.1093/ehr/cead177 #OpenAccess #OA #Journal #Article #History #Histodon #Histodons #England #Mercantilism #Trade @histodon @histodons