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By ‘Classical’ I shall include all of the great early economists who grounded their macro work in the surplus approach. I am not interested in their price theory but in their theory of society. The principle of social subsistence is at the heart of these Classics. Moreover, the Classical Macrofoundation still lives in anthropology. Long banished from economics, it is needed in the poorworlds.
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Goalstone, D. (2007). Classics. In: Macrofoundations of Political Economy and Development. Palgrave Macmillan, New York. https://doi.org/10.1057/9780230604315_11
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