The Mercantilist School never presented a common front but is associated with a common outlook: the idea of specie or bullion as the essence of wealth and the notion that a positive balance of trade is an index of national welfare.

Contents: 1. E. Johnson (1933), 'Gerard de Malynes and the Theory of the Foreign Exchanges'. 2. H. Heaton (1937), 'Heckscher on Mercantilism'. 3. E.F. Heckscher (1950), 'Multilateralism, Baltic Trade, and the Mercantilists'. 4. C. Wilson (1951), 'Treasure and Trade Balances: Further Evidence'. 5. J.C. Riemersma (1952), 'Usury Restrictions in a Mercantile Economy'. 6. R.W.K. Hinton (1955), 'The Mercantile System in the Time of Thomas Mun'. 7. J.H. Dales (1955), 'The Discoveries and Mercantilism: An Essay in History and Theory'. 8. J.D. Gould (1955), 'The Trade Crisis of the Early 1620s and English Economic Thought'. 9. A.W. Coats (1957), 'In Defence of Heckscher and the Idea of Mercantilism'. 10. L. Herlitz (1964), 'The Concept of Mercantilism'. 11. R.C. Blitz (1967), 'Mercantilist Policies and the Pattern of World Trade, 1500-1750'. 12. L. Muchmore (1969), 'Gerard de Malynes and Mercantile Economics'. 13. L. Muchmore (1970), 'A Note on Thomas Mun's "England's Treasure by Foreign Trade"'. 14. H.O. Schmitt (1979), 'Mercantilism: A Modern Argument'. 15. R.B. Ekelund, Jr and R.D.Tollison (1980), 'Economic Regulation in Mercantile England: Heckscher Revisited'. 16. W.D. Grampp (1981), 'The Controversy over Usury in the Seventeenth Century'. 17. L.S. Moss (1987), 'The Subjective Mercantilism of Bernard Mandeville'. 18. L.H.Officer (1982), 'The Purchasing-Power-Parity Theory of Gerard de Malynes'. Name Index