Misunderstanding Classical Economics? A Reply to Blaug

From Professor Blaug History of Political Economy 31:213–236, 1999 article (unspecified page references are to it) there emerges the paradox that an interpretation pointing to the basic role of institutional and historical factors in the classical theory of distribution and capital accumulation is criticized as “amazingly narrow” (215), one that looks at those economists “‘through the lenses of the linear production model’” (234).