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This book offers a new account of David Ricardo's political economy that is both scholarly and accessible. It provides an up to date overview of the secondary literature on Ricardo, and discusses alternative perspectives on his work, including those of Marxians, neoclassicals and Sraffians. The book makes a critical assessment of the 'new views' of Ricardo's politics, his macroeconomics and his theory of wages, and links his writings to current controversies on fiscal and monetary policy, including 'Ricardian equivalence', fiscal austerity and the case for an independent central bank. Successive chapters deal with Ricardo's life and times; his vision, including his philosophical and political ideas; his theory of value and distribution; international trade and the case against protection; Ricardo's macroeconomics, focusing on Say's Law, money and banking, and structural unemployment; his approach to fiscal policy, monetary policy, the relief of poverty and classical liberalism; his editors and critics, 1823-2013; and the alternative interpretations of Ricardo's economics of Marx, Marshall and Sraffa. There is a comprehensive bibliography.

Table of Contents:

• PART I: THE LIFE AND TIMES OF DAVID RICARDO
• 1. The Importance of Ricardo
• 2. Ricardo's Life
• 3. Ricardo's England: the Economy
• 4. Ricardo's England: Society and Politics
• PART II: RICARDO'S VISION
• 5. Philosophy, History, Society
• 6. Ricardo's Method and Style
• 7. Ricardo's Politics
• 8. Ricardo's Works
• 9. Appendix: The Principles
• PART III: VALUE AND DISTRIBUTION
• 10. Ricardo's Problem
• 11. Profits and Rent
• 12. Wages
• 13. The Theory of Value
• PART IV: INTERNATIONAL TRADE
• 14. The Theory of Comparative Advantage
• 15. Ricardo on the Corn Laws
• 16. Ricardo and his Critics

• 17. The Politics of Trade
• 18. Ricardo's Trade Theory in the 21st Century
• PART V: RICARDO'S MACROECONOMICS
• 19. Growth and the Stationary State
• 20. 'Say's Law'
• 21. Money and Banking
• 22. 'On Machinery'
• PART VI: RICARDO ON ECONOMIC POLICY
• 23. Fiscal Policy
• 24. Monetary Policy
• 25. Social Policy, Labour and the Poor
• 26. Ricardo, Laissez-Faire and Classical Liberalism
• PART VII: EDITORS AND CRITICS
• 27. 1823-1870: the First two Generations
• 28. 1870-1936: Ricardo and the 'Marginalist Revolution'
• 29. 1936-1975: Ricardo and the 'Keynesian Revolution'
• 30. After 1975: Ricardo in the Age of Neoliberalism
• PART VIII: THE THREE RICARDOS
• 31. The Marxian Ricardo
• 32. The Neoclassical Ricardo: Marshall to Hollander
• 33. Piero Sraffa's Ricardo
• 34. Ricardo's Legacy.

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Author/Creator:

King, J. E. (John Edward) , author

Languages:

English

Language Notes:

Item content: English

Main Work:

David Ricardo [by King, J.E.]

Other Related Resources:

Print version: David Ricardo [by King, J.E.] (ISBN 9780230289963; LCCN 2013034648)

Related Series:

Great thinkers in economics series

Subjects:

Ricardo, David, 1772-1823

Economists — Great Britain — Biography

Economics — History — 19th century

1800-1899

Economics

Economists

Great Britain

Genres:

History

Biographies

General Notes:

Electronic reproduction. Palo Alto, Calif. Available via World Wide Web.
Description based on print version record.
Includes bibliographical references (pages 217-247) and indexes.

Physical Description:

1 online resource.

Digital Characteristics:

text file

Call Numbers:

HB103.R5 K56 2013eb

ISBNs:

9781137315953 (electronic bk.)
1137315954 (electronic bk.)

OCLC Numbers:

858871702

Other Control Numbers:

EBC1431396 (source: MiAaPQ)
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