David Ricardo has been through a lot in the past few years. For someone who’s been dead since 1823, he’s taking quite a beating from the New Right and the current Trump administration — he ...

The Ricardian vice is prevalent in economics and is named after David Ricardo, one of the first economists to bring mathematical rigor to the discipline.

David Ricardo and Comparative Advantage. British Conservative Party member Owen Paterson delivered remarks on the state of negotiations for the U.K.'s exit from the European Union (also known as ...

The revered thinker David Ricardo was clear about his task. His masterpiece, On the Principles of Political Economy and Taxation (1817), opens by defining “the principal problem in political economy” ...

This, David Ricardo argued in 1820, was because rational consumers understand that debt will eventually have to be paid off. They will therefore set aside current income in anticipation of future ...