Lars Magnusson is Professor of Economic History and Dean of Social Sciences at Uppsala University, Sweden

1. Introduction 2. Debates on Mercantilism 3. Plenty and Power 4. The Favourable Balance of Trade 5. The 1620¿s debates 6. A New Science of Trade 7. Then what was Mercantilism?

Following on from his 1994 volume Mercantilism - The Shaping of an Economic Language, this new book from Lars Magnusson presents a more synthetic interpretation of Mercantilism not only as a theoretical system, but also as a system of political economy. This book incorporates samples of material from the 1994 publication alongside new material, ordered in a new set of chapters and up-date discussions on mercantilism up to the present day.