Classical Economic Methodology and its Critics.
The term Classical Economics has been defined in various ways by different thinkers. Marx, who coined the term, used it to refer to Ricardo and the pre-Ricardians. He excluded the Socialist School (Bray, Hodgskin, Thompson, Gray, Sismondi, Proudhon) and the German Romantic School (Muller, Gentz, Lis...
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McGill University
1954
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| Summary: | The term Classical Economics has been defined in various ways by different thinkers. Marx, who coined the term, used it to refer to Ricardo and the pre-Ricardians. He excluded the Socialist School (Bray, Hodgskin, Thompson, Gray, Sismondi, Proudhon) and the German Romantic School (Muller, Gentz, List). The one because of his kinship with them; the other because their methodology was tinged with ethical elements and was thus not scientifically objective. |
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