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During the seventeenth century, the class of the capitalist entrepreneurs began to be differentiated from that of the merchants. This brought to the fore deficiencies in the universal benefits of mercantilist policies. Reasons for conflicting interests became more obvious and were no longer confined to explaining those between merchants. Increasingly, money lenders and workers found themselves on one side, and landlords and manufacturers on the other, in debates over economic issues.
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Vaggi, G., Groenewegen, P. (2003). Dudley North, 1641–91 and John Locke, 1632–1704: Early Critical Reactions to Mercantilism. In: A Concise History of Economic Thought. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/9780230505803_3
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