----- Original Message ----- From: "Carrol Cox" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> 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 ==================== 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..."
