The East India Company and Its 17th-Century Defenders

09/23/2010 Murray N. Rothbard

Thomas Mun set forth what would become the standard mercantilist line. He pointed out that there was nothing particularly evil about the East India Company trade. The company imported valuable drugs, spices, dyes, and cloth from the Indies, and it re-exported most of these products to other countries, writes Murray N. Rothbard (1926–1995).

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