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Ricardo, David

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English economist. With the possible exception of German philosopher and economist Karl Marx , no great economist of the past has received so many divergent and even contradictory interpretations as David Ricardo. No sooner had his Principles of Political Economy and Taxation (1817) appeared, but he attracted a number of ardent disciples who hailed him as the founder of a new rigorous science of political economy. However, these were soon followed by an even larger number of detractors, who struggled to escape from the grip of Ricardo's overwhelming influence on the economic thinking of his times. The leading economic textbook of the mid-19th century, English philosopher John Stuart Mill's Principles of Political Economy (1848), paid tribute once again to Ricardo's genius and secured his reputation with yet another generation of students. With the onset of the ‘marginal revolution’ in the 1870s, Ricardo's star finally began to wane and many now agreed with English economist William…
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Full text Article Ricardo, David (1772–1823)

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The English classical economist David Ricardo...
English classical economist who pioneered the modern analysis of comparative advantage and the gains from trade. David Ricardo, who succeeded Adam Smith as the outstanding classical economic theorist, built the foundations of the modern theory of international trade. Retiring with a fortune from…
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Full text Article Ricardo, David, 1772-1823

From Routledge Dictionary of Economics
A leading English classical economist who came to economic study after a rigorous Talmudic education at the Portuguese Synagogue of Amsterdam, a lucrative career as a London stock jobber and a chance reading of smith's Wealth of Nations at Bath in 1799. The great inflation of the Napoleonic Wars…
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English political economist. He set up in business as a young man, and in 1817 produced his chief work, Principles of Political Economy and Taxation. In 1819 he became an MP, and was influential in the free-trade movement. It is not to be understood that the natural price of labour, estimated even…
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Full text Article Ricardo, David (1772–1823).

From The Oxford Companion to British History
Born in London of Dutch parents, Ricardo's career 1793–1814 was as a stockjobber, initially in the family firm. Accruing a reasonable fortune, he bought the country estate of Gatcombe Park in 1814; by 1819 he was elected member of Parliament. Much of his time was devoted to the study of mathematics, …
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Full text Article David Ricardo (1772–1823)

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Portrait of David Ricardo (1772-1823) engraved by Thomas Hodgetts (litho) (b/w photo)
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the specialist social science concerned with the study of economic behaviour. The term derives from the Greek for ‘household management’, and it has nowadays mainly replaced the earlier term for economic science, POLITICAL ECONOMY . The term can also be used to refer to the study of any behaviour in…
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