a correction

the English translation of Schmoller is on archive.org

Schmoller refers to Bidermann's   Ueber den Merkantilismus, Innsbruck, 1870.

(now a google book) -

I hope it provides some clues  despite he doesn't distinguishes clearly 
between mercantile system and mercantilism

Clearly mercantilism in the sense of Schmoller was proposed by Schmoller 
1884 (-:)




Le 20/07/2017 à 14:01, Alain Alcouffe a écrit :
> of course, chapter 7 in Schumpeter is still useful
>
> but there is some references there :
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>  Heckscher, Mercantilism
> B. F. Haley
> The Quarterly Journal of Economics
> Vol. 50, No. 2 (Feb., 1936), pp. 347-354
>
> Heckscher's book has been reprinted with a new introduction by Lars 
> Magnusson in 1994 (Routledge)
>
> Lars Magnusson writes :
>
>> Mercantilism as a system of unification was first propounded by
>> Gustav Schmoller, in his essay, famous in his own day, Das
>> Merkantilsystem in seiner historischen Bedeutung (in his Jahrbuch 1884).
>> He states in one passage, which cannot be said to be free from
>> obscurity, that mercantilism "at its very core is nothing other
>> than state-formation (Staatsbildung)—but not state-formation in
>> itself but simultaneously the building up of the state and the
>> economic system—state-formation in the modern sense of the
>> word, to make the community that forms the state into an
>> economic society and so to give it increased importance". The
>> essence of mercantilist policy he defines in much clearer terms as
>> consisting "in the total reconstruction of society and its organization,
>> as well as of the state and its institutions, by substituting for
>> the local and provincial economic policy that of the state and the
>> nation".
>
> Cunningham is another candidate but despite Lars Magnusson wrote :
>
>> Mercantilism as a system of power was expounded primarily
>> by William Cunningham in The Growth of English Industry and
>> Commerce, which first appeared in 1882 but went through many
>> later editions.
>
> I could not find the word in the 1892 edition available on archive.org 
> (the index includes a lot of mercantile system) therefore I am afraid 
> that G. Schmoller could be the "coiner" if we are to follow his 
> definition and distinguish mercantilism from mercantile system
>
> Best
>
> A.
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> Le 20/07/2017 à 04:56, Jérôme Lange a écrit :
>> Dear all,
>>
>> This had been in the back of my mind for a long time. I thought it 
>> was common knowledge, but asking around a bit revealed it was not. So 
>> now trying this wider channel.
>>
>> I'm not talking of Smith's "mercantile system/system of commerce", 
>> which appeared earlier in Physiocratic writing, but the actual term 
>> "mercantilism" (or Merkantilismus, mercantilisme). I often read/heard 
>> it was coined first in German by the Historical School, but never 
>> with a personal attribution or reference.
>>
>> Calling on your erudition.
>>
>> Best regards,
>> Jérôme
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