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During this time, there were many clear aggressions and human rights violations that were committed by imperial European empires on their colonies in Africa, Asia and the Americas, though not all of these were directly rationalized by mercantilism. Mercantilism, did however, lead to the adoption of enormous trade restrictions, which stunted the growth and freedom of colonial business. In the 1660s, for example, Great Britain passed the Navigation Acts.
Modern mercantilist practices arise from the same source as the mercantilist policies of the sixteenth through eighteenth centuries. Groups with political power use that power to secure government intervention to protect their interests while claiming to seek benefits for the nation as a whole. In their recent interpretation of historical mercantilism, Robert B. Ekelund and Robert D. Tollison (1997) focused on the privilege-seeking activities of monarchs and merchants.