Mercantilism

Kaufmann, m. merchant, tradesman, kaufmannisch, a. mercantile, commercial business-like. 

Futures Prices Natural gas futures contracts began trading on April 3, 1990, on the New York Mercantile Exchange (NYMEX). Sabine Pipe Line Company s Heniy Hub near Erath,... 

NTP V Research in Motion, US Conrt of Appeals for the Federal Circuit, 03-1615. Available at URL http //www.fedcir.gov/opinions/03-1615.pdf Menashe Business Mercantile v William Hill Organisation 2002 EWCA Civ 1702. Available at URL http //www.hmcourts-service.gov.uk/judgmentsfiles/jl398/ menashe v william hill.htm... 

St. Louis Mercantile Library Association. A guide to the Ethan Allen Hitchcock Collection of the St. Louis Mercantile Library Association a collective effort produced by the NEH Project Staff of the St. Louis Mercantile Library Association. St Louis (MO) St. Louis Mercantile Library Association, 1989. i, 152 leaves... 

Engelhard Corporation, Process Technology Group, 23800 Mercantile Road,... 

Grasshoff K, Wenck A (1972) Mercantile Journal Cons Perm International 522 34... 

Antoine Lavoisier came from wealth, and his approach to maintaining it was eminently practical. Like his German rival, Georg Stahl, Lavoisier observed fermentation processes to learn about chemical transformations. Such experiments had a mercantile application in alcoholic drinks. He analyzed mineral waters, helped develop street lighting for Paris, and tested the quality of state tobacco. Lavoisier advised the government on soil cultivation, chemical fumigation of prisons, water purification, and uniformity of... 

Not just the House of Orseolo. A hundred years ago the Republic was great, and the Orseolos were great, but then the accursed Portugese found a way around Africa and now the Dutch heretics are stealing our spice trade. Every mercantile house has been declining. The last twenty years have been especially hard for some, but the old man perhaps did not see this as well as he should. He may have blamed Enrico unfairly. ... 

NYMEX New York Mercantile Exchange, Inc. (NYMEX Exchange). The company is a major provider of financial services to the energy and metals industries including the trading of energy futures and options contracts. 

Kathmandu Post (2001) Food Adulteration, Editorial 7 May 2001. Mercantile Communications, Kathmandu. 

From context, it can be determined that the word mercantile has something to do with... 

It wasn t really a ship, this crudely shaped hull resting on blocks in a dusty laboratory storeroom at the University of Mercantile Marine in Kobe, Japan. Just a 12-foot, wooden-hulled model that looked as if it had been knocked together out of spare parts by a steam-fitter working from blueprints for an antiquated carnival ride. 

U.S. prices received for butter by manufacturers, primary receivers, and others at the wholesale level are based primarily on activities on the Chicago Mercantile Exchange (CME). The Dairy Market News of the U.S. Department of Agriculture reports Chicago Mercantile Exchange prices, which serve as reference prices for formula pricing of butter (146). 

Chicago Mercantile Exchange, Cash Markets, July 16, 2004. 

Figure E9-2.1 Aftermath of the explosion. (St. Louis Globe Democrat photo by Roy Cook Courtesy of St. Louis Mercantile Library.)...

The second, closely related factor is the private sector in liberal political economy. As Foucault put it unlike absolutism and mercantilism, political economy announces the unknowability for the sovereign of the totality of economic processes and, as a consequence, the impossibility of an economic sovereignty. The point of liberal political economy was not only that a free market protected property and ere-... 

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