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, ministers, reformers, and merchants thought about imperialism, economics, industry, and reform in the early modern period. …, reformers, and merchants thought about imperialism, economics, industry, and reform in the early modern period. … philosophers, ministers, reformers, and even merchants thought about economics, as well as industrial policy and reform, in the …