Classical economics

Classical economics is the first modern school of economic thought. Its main developers include Adam Smith, Jean-Baptiste Say, David Ricardo, Thomas Malthus and John Stuart Mill.^[1]

1. ↑ Blaug, Mark (1987). "Classical Economics", The New Palgrave: A Dictionary of Economics, v. 1, pp. 434–35. Blaug notes less widely used datings and uses of 'classical economics', including those of Marx and Keynes.