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!

David Ricardo ... a pile of economics scribblings and no food nor beer while the butcher and the publican have plenty of those but none of their essential economic scribblings. Ricardo's addition ...

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 ...

They have been staunch advocates of free trade dating back to Adam Smith and David Ricardo. Throughout the ... According to economic historian Douglas Irwin, the period of 1985-1995 achieved ...