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classical economics
noun
- a system or school of economic thought developed by Adam Smith, Jeremy Bentham, Thomas Malthus, and David Ricardo, advocating minimum governmental intervention, free enterprise, and free trade, considering labor the source of wealth and dealing with problems concerning overpopulation.
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- classical economist noun
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And classical economics holds that if everyone pursues his self-interest properly, the common interest will inevitably result.
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It paves the way for the disintegration of a classical economics unable to cope with the problem of its own making.
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They have been the successors and the continuers of classical economics.
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To sum up: the classical economics, having primarily to do with the pecuniary side of life, is a theory of a process of valuation.
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From which duly follows the general position of classical economics on the theory of production.
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