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David Ricardo 1772-1823 - 

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1) Ricardo, David. The Columbia Encyclopedia, 
...Ricardo, David, 1772-1823, British economist, of Dutch-Jewish parentage. At the age of 20 he entered business as a stockbroker and was so skillful in the management...

2) value, in economics. The Columbia Encyclopedia, 
...depends on the utility rendered by the last unit consumed. It developed in opposition to David Ricardo's earlier labor theory of value, which holds that the value...

 

Questions of 

labor theory of value

Reading

The Principles of Political Economy and Taxation (1817).

Writing available on the net

Complete text of Ricardo's On the Principles of Political Economy and Taxation

Commentaries

See studies by J. H. Hollander (1910, repr. 1968), O. St. Clair (1957, repr. 1965), and M. Blang (1958, repr. 1973).

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