Which of the following transactions is most similar to the actions of joint stock companies during the age of exploration?

a. an oil company owner convinces investors to pay for a new oil refinery in exchange for a portion of the refinery's profits.
b. a farmer grows a large field of spinach after learning that many of his customers prefer it to any other vegetable.
c. a large restaurant chain donates large sums of money to politicians in an attempt to influence their decisions.
d. the founder of a small electronics company sells his business to a larger rival for a very large one-time payment.

A. An oil company owner convinces investors to help pay for a new oil refinery in exchange for a portion of the refinery's profits.

A joint stock company is a company that has shares of the company that can be bought and sold, this will make you earn money from the company´s earnings. This money invested is usually used to create new ways to earn more money, like in this case paying for a new refinery.

workers of lowell mills were greatly benefited for the waltham type of work which was more a paternalist kind, trying to protect the integrity of this little girls coming from small farmers and providing an adequate place of work, this in an effort to avoid the issues of bad place conditions and immorality that the people in bigger industrialized cities of great britain were experimenting.

a stronger government