Classical Political Economy: Primitive Accumulation and the Social Division of Labor 9781472553676, 9781472514417, 9781472508461

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Classical Political Economy addresses the question of what determines the social division of labour, the division of soc

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The originators of classical political economy—Adam Smith, David Ricardo, James Steuart, and others—created a discourse

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