David Ricardo published "On the Principles of Political Economy and Taxation" on April 19 1817. This is the work that described the principle of comparative advantage and thus explained to us all ...

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David Ricardo (1772-1823) developed principles of trade and monetary theory that helped lay the foundations of the global economy. But it was his success at quantitative trading that made him into ...

Professor Jacob H. Hollander, Ph.D., professor of political economy at Johns Hopkins University, will give three lectures on David Ricardo, under the auspices of the Economics Department ...

On April 18, 1817, David Ricardo published On the Principles of Political Economy and Taxation, in which Ricardo introduced his concept of comparative advantage. In VoxEU, Douglas Irwin ably ...

It all started with wine from Portugal. And it's served as the foundation to free trade. A key trade theory turns 200 years old Wednesday. The marquee birthday comes at a time when President Trump ...

Economists sometimes present their discipline as the queen of the social sciences, a claim staked primarily on a superificial resemblance to physics: It has universal laws! Expressed in numbers!

People have been asking that question for an astonishingly long time. The Regency-era British economist David Ricardo added to the third edition of his classic “Principles of Political Economy ...

But, on the serious question of the relation of capital to labour, he hardly seems to make Ricardo's position clear. He says (p. xxxix.):— Principles of Political Economy and Taxation. By David ...