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The ordinary means therefore to increase our wealth and treasure is by Forraign [Foreign] Trade, wherein wee must ever observe this rule; to sell more to strangers yearly than wee consume of theirs in value.
—Thomas Munn, England’s Treasure by Forraign Trade, 1664

Which 16th century economic doctrine is described in this excerpt?