The excerpts (A) are complementary, as both expose principles of the mercantilist doctrine that guided the exploitation of the American colonies,...

The excerpts


(A) are complementary, as both expose principles of the mercantilist doctrine that guided the exploitation of the American colonies, based on the extraction of precious metals and slavery.
(B) present different views on the source of wealth in the country, as the first, mercantilist, highlights trade to accumulate metals and the second, linked to liberalism, highlights work.
(C) are complementary, as both emphasize the importance of foreign trade to enrich a country, whose relations with others should be based on monopoly and protectionism.
(D) present opposing views on the economy of a country, as the first explicitly states mercantilism through trade and the second defends the economic doctrine known as physiocracy.
(E) differ on the factors of enrichment of a country, although both justify the principle of laissez-faire, laissez-passer, a symbol of the dominant liberalism in Modern Europe.