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It turns out my feeling was wrong, but check out these interesting annual spikes. Every September and October the number of people searching for the word "mercantilism" goes up. My theory is that it's all those university students in International Economics 101 reading about one of the introductory concepts of such classes. I remember it was in mine.Autumn is the season for mercantilism
Someone at Northvancouverpolitics.com posted a link to a paper by an SFU economics professor, Herb Grubel, a well-known right-winger (even by economist standards). It's worth a read, but backs up its wide-ranging assertions with very little data.
Anyways, it mentions China's economy as being mercantilist in nature. The term is one that I have a vague sense of seeing more regularly than I used to, so I thought I would check out Google Trends to see.
