The English economist David Ricardo (1772-1823) was a founder of political economy. His economics armed reformers attacking the agricultural aristocracy's political, social, and economic privileges. David Ricardo was born in London on April 19, 1772,...

David Ricardo was one of the most important figures involved in the creation of the classical school of economics in the nineteenth century. This school, built upon the foundation of Adam Smith's Wealth of Nations (1776), included such luminaries as...

David Ricardo had a rich and varied career. He was a successful broker on the London Stock Exchange, an M.P. in the House of Commons, and one of the most highly respected political economists of the nineteenth century. It is chiefly due to his...

David Ricardo was born in London on 18 April 1772, the third son of Abraham Israel Ricardo, a Sephardic Jew who had moved from Amsterdam to London around 1760. The young Ricardo was groomed to follow his father on the London Stock Exchange. Although...

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...

David Ricardo (18 April, 1772–11 September, 1823) was a political economist, often credited with systematizing economics, and was one of the most influential of the classical economists, along with Thomas Malthus and Adam Smith. He was also a...

A historical reconfiguration of David Ricardo's theory of the source of value is undertaken. It is the contention of interpreters that Ricardo adopted the labor theory of the source of value as the basis for his labor theory of the determinant and measure of...

One of David Ricardo's most important and lasting contributions to economics was his theory of rent. In brief, Ricardo defined rent as the difference in the costs of production between different tracts of land, and the different costs he in turn attributed to...