Asia and hormones

[James Farmelant]

Professional economists did not exist in Marx's day.  The leading figures
in classical political economy all came from other fields.  Adam Smith
for
example was a professor of moral philosophy, David Ricardo was a
stockbroker and many of the other important economic writers were
businessmen.  Marx himself was trained as a philosopher with a
dissertation
on the development of atomic theory from Democritus to Epicureus.
Alfred Marshall was I think one of the first people to hold a university
chair in economics, and that was not to the late 19th century.
On Wed, 24 Jun 1998 09:42:45 -0500 (CDT) Carrol Cox
<cbcox at rs6000.cmp.ilstu.edu> writes:
>> ah, um, well, marx was an economist.  maggie coleman 
>mscoleman at aol.com
>> 
>
>Sorry Maggie, ah, um, well, marx was not an economist but a 
>classicist,
>writing his dissertation on the pre-socratics I believe.
>
>Carrol
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