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[Posted on behalf of Mat Forstater. -- RBE] 
 
Marx certainly used the term Classical Political Economy in Das Kapital and 
Theories of Surplus Value, but those were probably not his own first uses. 
Again, Marx did not use it to refer to *all* "'economic' writers before 
him" as he reserved CPE for a particular tradition (Petty, Cantillon, the 
Physiocrats, Smith and Ricardo) that he distinguished from the "vulgar" 
economists.  Marx was critical of CPE, but he admired and respected that 
tradition immensely. 
 
Mat Forstater 
 
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