Aucbonyx.247 net.space utcsrgv!utzoo!decvax!ucbvax!ARPAVAX:Onyx:jmrubin Mon Feb 1 15:36:32 1982 Government Funding of Exploration (previous article) (Adding blank lines due to netnews screwup) As I recall, off hand, the British East India Company and the Hudson's Bay Company, and the British West India Company were NOT supported by laissez-faire types. They supported MERCANTILISM which was precisely what laissez-faire types were against. Joel Rubin ----------------------------------------------------------------- gopher://quux.org/ conversion by John Goerzen of http://communication.ucsd.edu/A-News/ This Usenet Oldnews Archive article may be copied and distributed freely, provided: 1. There is no money collected for the text(s) of the articles. 2. The following notice remains appended to each copy: The Usenet Oldnews Archive: Compilation Copyright (C) 1981, 1996 Bruce Jones, Henry Spencer, David Wiseman.