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Cambridge Definition
a theory about economics, developed in Britain in the 18th and 19th centuries, which states that the economy will be most successful when people are allowed to work at jobsthat interest them, and businesses are allowed to competewithout being controlled by the government
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CLASSICAL ECONOMICS – Cambridge English Dictionary
Wikipedia Definition
Classical economics, also known as the classical school of economics,[1] or classical political economy, is a school of thought in political economy that flourished, primarily in Britain, in the late 18th and early-to-mid 19th century. It includes both the Smithian and Ricardian schools.[2] Its main thinkers are held to be Adam Smith, Jean-Baptiste Say, David Ricardo, Thomas Robert Malthus, and John Stuart Mill. These economists produced a theory of market economies as largely self-regulating systems, governed by natural laws of production and exchange (famously captured by Adam Smith's metaphor of the invisible hand).
