Raising the type of question stated in the title of this paper implies a strong definitional and classificatory intent: what are the qualities which make a particular economic writer a classical economist? It also suggests the question whether such a classification is still worthwhile when it is...

Research on Trends in professionalisation and specialisation in the early journal literature as part of a historical study of twentieth century economics discloses interesting data on the changing role of women in the production of journal literature over the first four decades of the century. A...

Towards the end of the first half of the century French influence was exerted on British economics from the remarkable group of financial economists France produced and more fundamentally from the work of the great Montesquieu, whose role in the development of political economy within a new...