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If we are going to debate economic policy, let’s at least start with a shared (and accurate) understanding of economic theory.

I shall be discussing an apparent about-turn on the subject by David Ricardo (1772–1823), who at different times, even in different chapters of the same book, and, indeed, even at different places in ...