What is mercantilism, /pol?

Oh, let me help you further then
>Mercantilism is a social policy in Civilization V. It is part of the Commerce tree and requires Trade Unions. In Brave New World it requires Mercenary Army.
>Mercantilism is a form of economic nationalism that encourages a nation to engage in policies of "protectionism" to promote its own exports and to limit imports from other nations. As a nation's "balance of trade" increases, the nation gains in wealth and prosperity, and if it dips below zero (the nation imports more stuff than it exports), the nation and its people grow poorer and more vulnerable to external threats. The theory was popular in Western Europe from the 16th to the 18th centuries. Today most western nations seek to open their borders to trade, albeit often with some level of taxation or quotas to protect their most important national industries.

Hahahaha. I laughed at this, user. Well done.

>>Mercantilism is a form of economic nationalism that encourages a nation to engage in policies of "protectionism" to promote its own exports and to limit imports from other nations. As a nation's "balance of trade" increases, the nation gains in wealth and prosperity, and if it dips below zero (the nation imports more stuff than it exports), the nation and its people grow poorer and more vulnerable to external threats.
Sounds like what the US had from early on until the 1990s or so, back when America was extremely prosperous.

It feels natural desu

Spain is the chaddest of all colonizers. No other nation in world history has left their blood across to much of the world, not by a long shot.

I want to fuck spain

It was proto capitalism based on endless growth for the merchants themselves, we pretty much have mercantilism now, the result of a merchant led society has been a disaster

We don't have the protectionism of emphasis on positive trade balances. How is this anything like mercantilism?

So much for what? In the colonial era I could at least move abroad and claim cheap terrains, modern Spain just sucks

You will probably get a STD

*or emphasis on

I meant that during the colonial era, Spain was the chaddest of all colonizers, more so than Portugal, the Netherlands, France, Great Britain, or even the Mongol Empire or Ancient Rome.
Spain left its seed across the world like no other empire in history has come close to doing.

Positive trade balances for what the merchants themselves own not for your country and they do have protectionist policies and will use trade embargoes and whatnot to get their way, its lot like mercantilism today exept in a more internationalistic form, the merchants dont feel like they belong to a nation at all also David Hume said in the 1700s that printing more money all the time will just lead to inflation and to this day they keep on printing like in the ''mercantilist'' days

How did they print money in the mercantilist days? Money was gold and silver. You can't just print that out of thin air.