International trade, with the U.S. and China at the forefront, is undergoing a paradigmatic shift away from free trade and ...

The world economy is in the antechamber of a fiscal-debt crisis. Unusually, all of the major economies have become indebted ...

Reinert, Sophus A., and Robert Fredona. "Mercantilism, the Medici, and the Making of the Modern World (A)." Harvard Business School Case 722-032, January 2022. (Revised August 2024.) ...

The Italian prime minister said that Europe has been “sacrificed on the altar of wokeness, bureaucracy and mercantilism.” ...

(Bloomberg) -- “The crisis was not a failure of the free-market system,” declared George W. Bush in November 2008. “And the answer is not to try to reinvent that system. It is to fix the ...

Until the 19th century, mercantilism was dominant in Europe. Mercantilist thinkers posited, roughly, that power came from wealth, and that wealth could be best accumulated by minimising imports ...