Most nineteenth-century classical political economists accepted Smith’s account, while disputing whether auxiliary services such as transportation and trade contributed sufficiently to material production to count as productive.

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What counts as productive? Redefining ‘producers’ in economic discourse, 1890–1960 — Classical political economy: producers as creators of material wealth

Most classical political economists in the nineteenth century basically accepted Smith’s rendition

https://doi.org/10.1080/03085147.2024.2404355#unit-4-p3

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