The classical British political economy from the mid-17th century to the early 1830s, which elaborated the basic contents of the capitalist relations of production and their internal connection, was the economic thought reflecting the interests and demands of the rising bourgeoisie, and the immediate theoretical source of the Marxist political economy. Its main representatives were William Petty (1623–1687), Adam Smith (1723–1790), and David Ricardo (1772–1823). . .
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