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6 unusual facts about David Ricardo


David Ricardo

However, Schumpeter coined an expression Ricardian vice, which indicates that rigorous logic does not provide a good economic theory.

Factors of production

The classical economics of Adam Smith, David Ricardo, and their followers focuses on physical resources in defining its factors of production, and discusses the distribution of cost and value among these factors.

Influences on Karl Marx

This practical and theoretical distinction was Marx's primary insight, and allowed him to develop the concept of "surplus value", which distinguished his works from that of Adam Smith and David Ricardo.

Laurence Kotlikoff

This proposition dates to David Ricardo, who raised it as a theoretical, but empirically irrelevant proposition.

Michio Morishima

Considering the work of these theorists to be Ricardian, his research worked to show that the modification of them along von Neumann lines elucidates the theoretical similarities and differences between the positions.

Technological theory of social production

In classical political economy (Smith, Marx, Ricardo), it is human efforts (labour) L, which are measured in working hours.


George Basevi

Other work included the stables at Bretton Hall in Yorkshire, Bywell Bridge in Northumberland, the Entrance Hall and Dining Room at Painswick House for his brother-in-law William Henry Hyett, and the remodelling of Gatcombe Park for the economist David Ricardo.

Law of rent

The Law of rent was formulated by David Ricardo around 1809, and presented in its most developed form in his magnum opus, On the Principles of Political Economy and Taxation.

Rhetorical circulation

Marx critiques classical economics theory, where economists like David Ricardo and Jean-Baptiste Say proposed a model of production, distribution, exchange, and consumption.


see also

Samuel Hollander

Especially his "new view" of David Ricardo as a direct predecessor of later neo-classical economists such as Marshall and Walras has triggered heated debates.