Glossary
Regional trade organized by local hegemons and closed blocs rather than a single global order.
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mercantilism
Regional trade organized by local hegemons and closed blocs rather than a single global order.
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Glossary
State-directed trade organized to produce wealth for the state and protect imperial trade zones.
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prediction
The end of Pax Americana will produce regional trading blocs, a return to mercantilism in which local hegemons guarantee trade only among allies.
diagnosis
The American Revolution is explained through three pressures: British limits on westward expansion, British attempts to tax colonists for defense, and mercantilist trade restrictions.
definition
Jiang defines mercantilism as state-directed trade for state wealth, producing rival trade zones that American colonists resent.
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"...will see emerge is regional trading blocks. Basically, the idea of mercantilism, okay? Mercantilism. And for most of you in history, this was what..."
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"It was more expensive, it was not so convenient, but it still works. So this does not mean the end of global trade, it..."
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"Mercantilism is the idea that all trade should be directed by the state for the purpose of generating wealth for the state. And so..."
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"immigrants will be forced to move out west to settle territory in the western frontier of these colonies. Okay? But as you know, these..."
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"...these nations, Spain, France, Britain, they're practicing a economic policy called mercantilism."
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"...-based national order. Another difference is World War II was about mercantilism. Okay? Mercantilism is basically you have your own separate trading zone. You..."
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Fukuyama's end of history becomes, in this lecture, a temporary American spell: Pax Americana, science-priesthood, and dollar worship.
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America begins here as a cure for civilization: a clean-slate game built from Enlightenment rights, self-help, property, and fair rules.
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