The classical, seminal sociological theorists of the late 19th and early 20th century were greatly interested in religion and its effects on society.

He was opposed to Marxism and agreed with classical liberal political theorist Herbert Spencer, who called it "the coming slavery."

It is arguable to what extent these classical theorists held the labor theory of value as it is commonly defined.

James Steuart, with his 1767 work, is considered by some scholars as the greatest classical theorist of primitive accumulation.

They pursued an inductive approach to economics rather than the deductive approach taken by classical and neo-classical theorists.

Some classical theorists accepted that a tall organisation structure is inefficient, because:

The new generation of organizational theories no longer relied upon logical assumptions and generalizations about human nature like classical and enlightened theorists.

Active citizenship is still an ideal, but we must not lose the vision of the classical theorists, regarding participatory democracy.

This misled classical theorists such as Aristotle, who believed that objects would move only as long as force was applied to them.

Josiah Ober is an American historian and classical political theorist.