classical economist

• a word derived from classical economics.
  classical economics

  noun

  a system or school of economic thought developed by Adam Smith, Jeremy Bentham, Thomas Malthus, and David Ricardo, advocating minimum governmental intervention, free enterprise, and free trade, considering labor the source of wealth and dealing with problems concerning overpopulation.

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A classical economist would begin by asking: How much would you pay right this moment to prevent this giant robot attack from happening?

From Slate ● Sep. 1, 2017

Virtually every classical economist declared that inflation would quickly return.

From New York Times ● Jul. 9, 2013

Although he spends his time helping to manage the world's currencies, Jacobsson is still at heart an oldfashioned, classical economist who believes in free rather than planned economies.

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