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Classical Reassessments

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Classical Political Economy

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In this chapter a group of six economists-Longfield, James Mill, Senior, Bailey, Torrens, and Say-is discussed. These are all writers who have frequently been treated as living in the fearful shadow of Ricardo (or Smith and Ricardo) and as being lacking in the intellectual strength to do more than question the Ricardian analysis. They have been treated as being mere regurgitators or, at best, as mosquitoes around the Ricardian giant.

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O’Brien, D.P. (1988). Classical Reassessments. In: Thweatt, W.O. (eds) Classical Political Economy. Recent Economic Thought, vol 14. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-015-7782-3_6

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