=================== HES POSTING ==================== [Posted on behalf of Aladar Madarasz -- RBE] About classsical The term classical was used not only by Marx but by other German economists and historians about the middle of nineteenth century. For example Julius Kautz (who was Hungarian but studied at Leipzig) in his history of economics (with a reference to his former professor W.Roscher) characterized England as "the classical home of theoretical and practical economics {National-Oekonomie}" and listed Hume, Smith, Ricardo and Malthus as "the classical masters of the discipline" excluding the second rank: Torrens, MacCulloch, Senior, James Mill, Wakefield, Tooke, Banfield and John Stuart Mill. (Julius Kautz: Die geschichtliche Entwicklung der National-Oekonomie und ihre Literatur Wien, 1860, pp. 488-489) This usage of a metaphor was influenced by contemporary literary and aesthetic theory. Aladar Madarasz Senior Research Fellow Institute of Economics Hungarian Academy of Sciences E-mail: [log in to unmask] ============ FOOTER TO HES POSTING ============ For information, send the message "info HES" to [log in to unmask]