# Classical Economics | | **Classical Economics**, also known as the classical school of economics, or classical political economy, is a school of thought in political economy that flourished, primarily in Britain, in the late 18th and early-to-mid 19th century. It includes both the Smithian and Ricardian schools. Its main thinkers are held to be Adam Smith, Jean-Baptiste Say, David Ricardo, Thomas Robert Malthus, and John Stuart Mill. These economists produced a theory of market economies as largely self-regulating systems, governed by natural laws of production and exchange. | |-|-| | | wikipedia:: [Classical economics](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Classical_economics) | [[David Hume]] [[Thomas Malthus]] [[Adam Smith]] [[John Stuart Mill]] [[Jeremy Bentham]] [[Karl Marx]]