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The life and economics of David Ricardo

Title
The life and economics of David Ricardo / by John P. Henderson, with supplemental chapters by John B. Davis ; edited by Warren J. Samuels and Gilbert B. Davis.
Author
Henderson, John P., 1919-
Publication
Boston : Kluwer Academic Publishers, [1997], ©1997.

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Additional Authors
  • Ricardo, David, 1772-1823.
  • Davis, John Bryan.
  • Samuels, Warren J., 1933-
  • Davis, Gilbert B.
Description
xii, 679 pages : illustrations, maps; 24 cm
Subjects
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references (p. [657]-675) and index.
Contents
Introduction / Warren J. Samuels -- I. The Multiple Role of the Biographer -- II. The Sephardic Heritage in English Society -- III. The Family Heritage: Eighteenth-Century Finance -- IV. Boyhood in London and Amsterdam -- V. The Taming of Tradition -- VI. The Gestation of an Economist: Early Financial Career -- VII. Malthus and the Corn Law: Ricardo and His Circle -- VIII. Ricardo's Principles and the Question of Value -- IX. Friendly Critics: Malthus and Ricardo on Political Economy -- X. A New Career in Politics -- XI. Equivocation: The Effects of Machinery on the Demand for Labor -- XII. The Search for a Measure of Absolute Value -- XIII. A Critique of the Twentieth Century Perspective.
ISBN
0792399374 (acid-free paper)
LCCN
97016305
OCLC
  • 36755927
  • ocm36755927
Owning Institutions
Columbia University Libraries