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According to the passage, early chartered trading companies are usually described as______
A.
irrelevant to a discussion of the origins of the modern multinational corporation
B.
interesting but ultimately too unusually to be good subjects for economic study
C.
analogues of nineteenth-century British trading firms
D.
rudimentary and very early forms of the modern multinational corporation
E.
important national institutions because they existed to further the political aims of the governments of their home countries