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The 38 pages that link to Classical economics, each with the reason it gives.

• MarxismRelated: Marx critically reworked its theories of value, labor, wages, and profit.

• Keynesian economicsCompared with: Keynes disputed the assumption that wage and price adjustment would reliably restore full employment.

• Fiscal policyCompared with: Its assumptions about self-correction contrast with Keynesian cases for active fiscal management.

• Purchasing power parityNarrower topic: Purchasing power parity inherits its expectation that market forces tend toward price consistency.

• David RicardoNarrower topic: Ricardo’s theories became a central part of this tradition.

• Scottish EnlightenmentNarrower topic: Smith’s political economy became a major foundation for this tradition.

• Neoclassical economicsCompared with: Neoclassical analysis shifted emphasis toward individual choice, marginal value, and allocation.

• Bounded rationalityCompared with: Simon challenged simplified accounts of economic choice that assume comprehensive calculation.

• Marxian economicsNarrower topic: Marx developed his critique through close engagement with its theories of value, wages, and profit.

• PhysiocracyNarrower topic: Physiocracy preceded classical economics and helped establish production as a central subject of analysis.

• The Wealth of NationsNarrower topic: The book helped establish the questions and framework of classical political economy.

• Economic rentNarrower topic: Classical economists used rent to analyze land, production, and the distribution of income.

• MarginalismCompared with: Marginalism shifted attention from production costs and class distribution toward individual choices at the margin.

• Carl MengerCompared with: Menger’s subjective account of value challenged cost-centered explanations associated with classical economics.

• Efficiency wageNarrower topic: Efficiency-wage theory challenges the claim that flexible wages clear labor markets.

• Supply-side economicsNarrower topic: Supply-side reasoning inherits classical attention to production and the effects of incentives.

• The General Theory of Employment, Interest and MoneyCompared with: Keynes disputes its conclusion that labor markets tend toward full employment.

• Thomas Robert MalthusNarrower topic: Malthus helped make population and subsistence central questions in classical political economy.

• Diminishing returnsNarrower topic: The principle became central to classical explanations of rent and economic growth.

• MacroeconomicsCompared with: Keynesian macroeconomics emerged partly by challenging its account of employment adjustment.

• Alfred MarshallNarrower topic: Marshall retained classical concerns with production and costs while revising their account of value.

• Effective demandCompared with: Keynes challenged the classical claim that market adjustment tends to secure full employment.

• Thomas SchellingCompared with: Schelling brought strategic conflict and bargaining into economic analysis beyond conventional market exchange.

• Ricardian equivalenceNarrower topic: Ricardo’s original discussion emerged within classical debates about public debt.

• Marginal revolutionCompared with: Its labor- and cost-centered accounts of value formed the main intellectual backdrop for marginalism.

• Animal spiritsCompared with: Keynes challenged accounts that treated investment as a reliably calculable response to returns.

• Free marketNarrower topic: Free-market arguments developed prominently within this broader tradition.

• The Malthusian trapNarrower topic: The trap emerged from classical debates about population, wages, land, and growth.

• History of Economic ThoughtBroader topic: It established political economy as a systematic inquiry into production and distribution.

• François QuesnayNarrower topic: Quesnay’s questions about surplus and economic reproduction helped shape debates inherited by classical economists.

• Iron law of wagesNarrower topic: The iron law emerged within classical debates about wages, population, and distribution.

• Jean-Baptiste SayNarrower topic: Say developed his ideas within this tradition.

• Piero SraffaNarrower topic: Sraffa reconstructed this tradition’s account of production, prices, and distribution.

• John Atkinson HobsonNarrower topic: Hobson challenged orthodox economic assumptions about distribution, saving, and the benefits of free markets.

• Fisher separation theoremNarrower topic: Fisher’s work extended classical questions about capital and interest into a formal choice framework.

• Hermann Heinrich GossenCompared with: Gossen shifted attention toward individual satisfaction and consumption choices rather than production alone.

• History of macroeconomic thoughtNarrower topic: Its theories of markets and growth formed the starting point for later debates about aggregate outcomes.

• Law of valueNarrower topic: The law emerged through Marx’s engagement with this tradition’s theories of value and prices.