Part of: The Works and Correspondence of David Ricardo, 11 vols (Sraffa ed.) The Works and Correspondence of David Ricardo, Vol. 2 Notes on Malthus
- David Ricardo (author)
- Piero Sraffa (editor)
- Maurice Herbert Dobb (editor)
David Ricardo and T. R. Malthus were friends despite a contentious divergence of opinion on many political economic issues. This volume contains the formal remnants of their differences. Ricardo analyzes, issue-by-issue, his points of divergence to Malthus’s Principles of Political Economy Malthus’s contributions to political economics generally concern his bleak forecast that a geometrically growing population would surpass the arithmetically growing capacity of essential natural resources.
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Economics and Ideology: Aspects of the Post-Ricardian LiteratureSamuel Hollander
A number of criticisms to Ricardo’s central ideas are discussed in this essay.
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Searching for Capitalism in the Wreckage of GlobalizationOren Cass
In this article the author argues that Ricardo’s concept of comparative advantage is not of general application.