classical economist
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classical
adjective
uk/ˈklæs.ɪ.kəl/us/ˈklæs.ɪ.kəl/
traditional in style or form, or based on methods developed over a long period of time, and considered to be of ...
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economist
noun[C]
uk/iˈkɒn.ə.mɪst/us/iˈkɑː.nə.mɪst/
a person who studies or has a special knowledge ...
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(Definition ofclassicalandeconomistfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)
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That argument, of course, according to theclassicaleconomistis unanswerable.
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To anyone who is familiar with theclassicaleconomist, one of the mysteries since the war is what has happened to the consumer.
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This model comes from theclassicaleconomistmodels, in which the decision maker is perfectly and completely rational in every way.
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Only by bringing reality into agreement with their ideas on economic freedom could classical economists demonstrate they were right.
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This was also the early heyday of the classical economists, who preached the message of the free market, self-help and private initiative.
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Is it the perfect competition of the classical economists?
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The link between the two is not as easy as classical economists think.
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That is an old maxim of the classical economists which has been too much overlooked in recent years.
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They were not taken into account, because they did not exist, when the classical economists wrote their text-books.
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Price fixing is not wholly bad, and the "perfect competition," as likened by the classical economists, is not wholly good.
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Of course trade unions are a difficult organisation for classical economists to fit into their theories, but that does not make them had things.
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It is possible that the answer may be the old answer of the classical economists, a free market economy built on a foundation of sound money.
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Classical economists claimed that free markets regulate themselves, when free of any intervention.
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However, based on sticky prices and other rigidities, the synthesis does not embrace the complete neutrality of money proposed by earlier new classical economists.
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