{"id":28083,"date":"2018-01-11T04:34:06","date_gmt":"2018-01-11T04:34:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/?p=28083"},"modified":"2018-01-11T04:34:06","modified_gmt":"2018-01-11T04:34:06","slug":"english-economics-history-what-is-mercantilism","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/english-economics-history-what-is-mercantilism\/","title":{"rendered":"English, economics, history: what is mercantilism?"},"content":{"rendered":"<h1>Tutoring a number of subjects, the term <em>mercantilism<\/em> might arise. The tutor defines it.<\/h1>\n<div style=\"font-family:monospace;font-size:130%;background-color:#444444;color:#efefef;padding:16px;white-space:pre-wrap;\">\n<span style=\"font-size:130%\">mercantilism<\/span><\/p>\n<p>economic policy that favours exports, discourages imports, and has the objective of amassing precious metals.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p style=\"white-space:pre-wrap\"><\/p>\n<p>Source:<\/p>\n<p>Barber, Katherine et al. <i>Oxford Canadian Dictionary of Current English<\/i>. Don Mills: Oxford University Press, 2005.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.investopedia.com\/terms\/m\/mercantilism.asp\">www.investopedia.com<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Jack of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\">Oracle Tutoring by Jack and Diane,<\/a> Campbell River, BC.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tutoring a number of subjects, the term mercantilism might arise. The tutor defines it. mercantilism economic policy that favours exports, discourages imports, and has the objective of amassing precious metals. Source: Barber, Katherine et al. Oxford Canadian Dictionary of Current &hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"> <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/english-economics-history-what-is-mercantilism\/\"> <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">English, economics, history: what is mercantilism?<\/span> Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[372,5,2209],"tags":[2671],"class_list":["post-28083","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-economics","category-english","category-history","tag-what-is-mercantilism"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28083","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=28083"}],"version-history":[{"count":23,"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28083\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":28106,"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28083\/revisions\/28106"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=28083"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=28083"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=28083"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}