Which Enlightenment thinker was a supporter of capitalism as the most efficient way for economies to operate, which stood in direct opposition to the mercantile system that was common in Europe at the time?

ADAM SMITH

Adam Smith and the Enlightenment

Adam Smith (1723-1790) synthesized and improved on many of David Hume economic theories to create an economic worldview that would influence global economics until the present.

legal rights and freedom of speech.i hope that it is correct.

brainliest if correct

the romans were initially interested in expansion via sicily (which at that time was a cultural melting pot), part of which lay under carthaginian control. at the start of the first punic war (264-241 bc), carthage was the dominant power of the western mediterranean, with an extensive maritime empire