Adam Smith balked at restraints on free trade ‘either by high duties, or by absolute prohibitions’. The return of high ...

32, No. 4, Fall 2018 Retrospectives: On the Genius Behind Dav... Retrospectives: On the Genius Behind David Ricardo's 1817 Formulation of Comparative Advantage This is the metadata section. Skip to ...

At the time, economists emphasised the importance of applying David Ricardo’s principles of comparative advantage, as outlined in his seminal 1817 work, “On the Principles of Political Economy ...