[Ads-l] Antedating of "Mercantilism"

[Shapiro, Fred]

mercantilism (OED 1838)

1834 _Wesleyan-Methodist Magazine_ June 454/2 (ProQuest)

Judaism entered China before the Christian era ... and if you will allow me the creative liberty of my countrymen, mercantilism has entered it now in these last days.

Fred Shapiro

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