Re: quick question

[Eubulides <paraconsistent@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

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From: "Carrol Cox" <cbcox@xxxxxxxxx>


> Eubulides wrote:
> >
> > Right but the dictionary entry is saying 1873. I'm reading a review of
> > Heckscher's book [it's Tuesday and I don't have a tv :-)] and I'm
asking
> > in an historiographical and nominalist sense.......
> >
>
> OED Online gives first date as 1838. But I can't find their bibliography
> of sources so I don't know what kind of asource they took the quote
> from. New Moral World 22 Dec. 142/2. I don't have the foggiest idea what
> the New Moral World was. For mercantile system the earliest source
> given, as Michael says, is Smith.
>
> Carrol

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Thanks for the above Carrol.

Here's a tidbit from one of Lars Magnusson's papers:

Quoting a guy named D C Coleman:


"...what was this mercantilism? Did it exist? As a description of a trend
in economic thought the term  may well be useful. As a label for economic
policy the term is not simply misleading, but actively confusing, a
red-herring of historiography. It serves to give a false unity to
disparate events, to conceal the close up reality of particular times and
particular circumstances..."