David Ricardo was born in London in 1772. His father, a successful stockbroker, introduced him to the Stock Exchange at the formative age of fourteen. During his career in finance, he amassed a personal fortune, which allowed him to retire at the age of forty-two. Thereafter, he pursued a political [...]
This book offers a new account of David Ricardo's political economy that is both scholarly and accessible. It provides a detailed overview of the secondary literature on Ricardo down to 2012, and discusses alternative perspectives on his work, including those of Marxians, neoclassicals and Sraffians[...]
This landmark treatise of 1817 formulated the guiding principles behind the market economy. Author David Ricardo, with Adam Smith, founded the classical system of political economy, a school of thought that dominated economic policies throughout the 19th century and figured prominently in the theori[...]
This volume provides analysis of the allocation of money between capitalists, landowners, and agricultural workers in Britain. Through this analysis, Ricardo came to advocate free trade and oppose Britain's restrictive "Corn laws". Here are his classic commentaries on certain points of contention a[...]
David Ricardo and T. R. Malthus shared an endearing friendship despite a contentious divergence of opinion on many political economic issues. This volume contains the formal remnants of their differences. Ricardo analyses, issue-by-issue, his points of divergence to Malthus's 'Principles of Politica[...]
David Ricardo var en af det 19. århundredes betydeligste økonomer, hvis bidrag til den økonomiske videnskab fortsat er til diskussion. Han opstillede en sammenhængende økonomisk model baseret på idéen om økonomisk rationalitet, der igennem mere end 100 år udgjorde grundlaget for udviklingen[...]
David Ricardo är en av de mer inflytelserika nationalekonomerna genom tiderna. I Nationalekonomins och beskattningens huvudprinciper - som anses som ett storverk och en milstolpe i den ekonomiska vetenskapens historia - finner vi, förutom hans tongivande teser om beskattning och handel, några av [...]