Why this word is great
COBDENISM — [Noun] A policy advocating free trade, international peace, and cooperation, named after Richard Cobden. From the proper name Cobden (after Richard Cobden, 19th-century English statesman and economist) + -ism (denoting a system or ideology). Unlike "mercantilism" (which hoards wealth behind tariffs and colonial extraction) or "isolationism" (which retreats behind borders in suspicion), Cobdenism insists that open markets and open dialogue are the twin engines of progress. It is the quiet hum of a Manchester textile mill weaving cloth for distant markets, the handshake between merchants on a Liverpool dock, and the unspoken faith that a ship carrying grain is more durable than a ship carrying guns—a belief, however fragile, that mutual interest might outlast mutual destruction.