================= HES POSTING ==================== [With reference to earlier message by Thomas.Rusterholz -- RBE] Marx used the term "classical political economy" to characterize not "the economic writers before him" but those French and English writers from Petty and Boisguillebert till Ricardo and Sismondi who - according to him - had supported and developed the labour theory of value. As far as I remember it was published in the first chapter, section A of "Zur Kritik der politischen Oekonomie" Berlin 1859. Aladar Madarasz <[log in to unmask]> ============ FOOTER TO HES POSTING ============ For information, send the message "info HES" to [log in to unmask]