Carl Friedrich Goerdeler
Carl Friedrich Goerdeler , 1884-1945, German civil servant, leader of resistance to Hitler. Lord mayor of Leipzig (1930-37) and price commissioner (1931-32, 1934-35), he resigned after continuously protesting measures taken by the Nazi regime. A conservative and a dedicated nationalist, he opposed Hitler's tactics and feared the consequences of war. After his resignation he organized the opposition to Hitler and conspired with Ludwig Beck in the unsuccessful attempt to assassinate Hitler on July 20, 1944. Goerdeler went into hiding but was arrested in Aug., 1944, and executed in Feb., 1945.
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Freeing the market: by abandoning the regulations of mercantilism, England became an economic powerhouse. Both the industrialists and the great masses benefited.(History--Struggle For Freedom)
Magazine article from: The New American; 8/11/2003; ; 700+ words
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Mercantilism revisited: the dismal science.
Magazine article from: The New Leader; 10/7/1985; ; 700+ words
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Mercantilism and cultural difference in Cabeza de Vaca's Relacion.
Magazine article from: Early American Literature; 3/22/2005; ; 700+ words
; ...Spain. But if Bauer's study invokes mercantilism--a complex set of economic prescriptions...particular social visions. In looking to mercantilism, as opposed to more recent economic...density that were central aspects of mercantilism. Similarly, in the place of hybridity...
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Mercantilism reconsidered.
Newspaper article from: Daily News Egypt (Egypt); 7/14/2009; 700+ words
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British mercantilism and crop controls in the tobacco colonies: a study of rent-seeking costs.
Magazine article from: The Cato Journal; 1/1/2003; ; 700+ words
; ...that can be learned from the study of mercantilism and the colonial crop controls to help...Tollison (1981) have analyzed British mercantilism as a rent-seeking society. (1...favors, but they ignored the impact of mercantilism and the role of rent seeking in the...
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Sick Economies: Drama, Mercantilism, and Disease in Shakespeare's England.(Book Review)
Magazine article from: Shakespeare Studies; 1/1/2005; ; 700+ words
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Mercantilism in a Japanese Domain: The Merchant Origins of Economic Nationalism in 18th-Century Tosa.(Review)(Brief Article)
Magazine article from: The Historian; 3/22/2000; ; 700+ words
; Mercantilism in a Japanese Domain: The Merchant Origins of Economic Nationalism...for comparative discussion--for example, in his statements about mercantilism and protonationalism, his view of Japan as a "multi-state system...
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Did Europe's mercantilist empires pay? (effect of mercantilism on the economic growth of Western Europe)
Magazine article from: History Today; 3/1/1996; ; 700+ words
; ...experience can be periodised into four phases: the long era of mercantilism, 1492-1846; the brief period of free trade which is symbolised...Laws in 1846 and which lasted down to the Great War; neo-mercantilism which marked the inter-war years; and the final phase...
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S. African president urges West to abandon neo-mercantilism
News Wire article from: Xinhua News Agency; 6/10/2004; 528 words
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From Mercantilism to The Wealth of Nations.(18th-century international trade)
Magazine article from: World and I; 5/1/1999; ; 700+ words
; ...amp; I, March 1999, p. 18] to control and direct it, produced the system later labeled, most notably by Adam Smith, mercantilism. This was the practice of imperial rivalry between European powers over global trade, and it gave impetus to the disagreements...
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Mercantilism
Encyclopedia entry from: Europe, 1450 to 1789: Encyclopedia of the Early Modern World
MERCANTILISM MERCANTILISM. Mercantilism was an economic "system" that developed in Europe during the period of the new monarchies (c. 1500) and culminated with the rise of the absolutist states (c. 1600 – 1700). Mercantilism...
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Mercantilism (Issue)
Encyclopedia entry from: Gale Encyclopedia of U.S. Economic History
MERCANTILISM (ISSUE) Mercantilism was a set of economic ideas followed by many northern and western...Netherlands, and England. By the nineteenth century, however, mercantilism was considered discredited as an economic theory. Although...
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mercantilism
Book article from: The Oxford Companion to British History
mercantilism. This general term, coined in 1763...little support to the basic ideas of mercantilism. Few today, except perhaps the mandarins...While historical evolution has rendered mercantilism unfashionable, and the evolution of...
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Liberalism
Encyclopedia entry from: Gale Encyclopedia of U.S. Economic History
...liberalism was a critique of the doctrine of mercantilism which had been the reigning theory...activity in the eighteenth century. Mercantilism focused on the commercial life of the...of the Wealth of Nations in 1776, mercantilism had seen its better days. Smith...
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India
Encyclopedia entry from: Europe, 1450 to 1789: Encyclopedia of the Early Modern World
...India ; Colbert, Jean-Baptiste ; Mercantilism ; Trading Companies . BIBLIOGRAPHY Ames, Glenn J. Colbert, Mercantilism and the French Quest for Asian...Colbert and a Century of French Mercantilism. 2 vols. New York, 1939. Malleson...
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