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was desirable because it was seen as the key to national
prosperity.
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Powerfully underpinning these ideasacross Europe strong unitary states
were emerging and consolidating themselves. To what extent were these
new states created forrather than used bythe new merchant interests?
The answer is that it is dif?cult to explain the evolution of state policies
during the long period during which Mercantilism held centre stage
without acknowledging the extent to which the state was the creature of
commercial interestsone of whose main objectives was to make sure that
they could manipulate it to their best advantage.
89Mercantilism had ?rm
roots in national defence and aggression
90and was pre-eminently an ideol-
ogy suited to the powerful merchant classes which had emerged. Serra took
it for granted that everyone understood ‘how important it isboth for
peoples and for princesthat a kingdom should abound in gold and
silver’.
91Becher had no doubt that ‘it is always better to sell goods to others
than to buy goods from othersfor the former brings a certain advantage
and the latter inevitable damage’.
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How effective was Mercantilism as a doctrine? Adam Smith began his
well-known critique of it with an accurately targe [link widoczny dla zalogowanych]yilai:
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