In some quarters QE is still a tainted term, associated either with mercantilism, as a weapon in a currency war, or monetary adventurism.

在某些领域，QE仍一个有污点的术语，要么与重商主义（作为货币战争中的武器）有联系，要么与货币冒险主义有联系。

These colonies were founded as  British possessions in the Americas, displacing Native Americans and subjecting  civilians to a policy known as mercantilism.

这些殖作为英国在美洲的财产而立的，取代了美洲原住， 并受制于一种被称为重商主义的政策。

Smith rejected government intervention in the economy to help merchants—the source of the name " mercantilism" —and instead advocated free markets along the lines of the French economists, the Physiocrats, who had coined the term laissez faire.

史密斯拒绝政府为帮助商人而干预经济——“重商主义”这个名字的来源——而按照法国经济学家、重农主义者的路线提倡自由市场，重农主义者创造了“自由放任”一词。

Marshall, for example, although his references to mercantilism are not altogether unsympathetic, had no regard for their central theory as such and does not even mention those elements of truth in their contentions which I shall examine below.

例如，马歇尔，虽然他对重商主义的提及并非完全没有同情心，但他并没有考虑到重商主义的中心理论本身，甚至没有提到他们论点中的那些真理要素，我将在下面进行考察。