Im pretty sure they didn't think it was right
Hayek believed the economy too complicated to think in terms of aggregates. This is the foundation of monetarism theory. He believed that people are unpredictable in their choices. Consequently, expansionary policy was potent because it could potentially lead to inflation and affect individual choices.
Rivers supplied not only water for the colonist, but transportation which also led to trade. Also a lot of wild life are around river which gave them food also weather it be fish in the rivers or animals that come to the river to drink. So rivers provided water, transportation, and food.
13. a policy or attitude of letting things take their own course, without interfering.
Or in Economics: abstention by governments from interfering in the workings of the free market.
