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This paper analyzes a central colonial institution: the monopolization of foreign trade through exclusive trading companies. We interpret this arrangement as an economic institution that creates a ...

Mercantilism increased a country's wealth by boosting exports. Colonies experienced high inflation and heavy taxation under mercantilism. Mercantilism led to widespread unrest and the American ...

King Willem-Alexander of the Netherlands apologized for his country’s role in colonial slave trading, amid a national reckoning over the brutal history of Dutch imperialism, whose legacy still echoes ...