The Works and Correspondence of David Ricardo, 11 vols (Sraffa ed.)
This eleven-volume set of The Works and Correspondence of David Ricardo contains all of Ricardo’s published and unpublished writings, and provides great insight into the early era of political economics by chronicling Ricardo’s significant contributions to modern economics. The edition has been widely acclaimed as the best example, prior to the Glasgow edition of Adam Smith’s writings, of scholarly editing applied to the work of an economist. It contains a general index and includes four volumes dedicated to his personal correspondence with such economic luminaries as Malthus, Jean-Baptiste Say, and James Mill, the father of John Stuart Mill. Complete sets of the edition have not been available for many years. This publication is an affordable paperback version of the hardcover edition prepared under the auspices of the Royal Economic Society by Piero Sraffa and printed by Cambridge University Press in 1951–1973.
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- Author: David Ricardo
- Editor: Piero Sraffa
- Editor: Maurice Herbert Dobb
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The Works and Correspondence of David Ricardo, ed. Piero Sraffa with the Collaboration of M.H. Dobb (Indianapolis: Liberty Fund, 2005), 11 vols.
Copyright:
First published by Cambridge University Press in 1951. Copyright 1951, 1952, 1955, 1973 by the Royal Economic Society. This edition of The Works and Correspondence of David Ricardo is published by Liberty Fund, Inc., under license from the Royal Economic Society.
Members of this set:
- The Works and Correspondence of David Ricardo, Vol. 1 Principles of Political Economy and Taxation
- The Works and Correspondence of David Ricardo, Vol. 2 Notes on Malthus
- The Works and Correspondence of David Ricardo, Vol. 3 Pamphlets and Papers 1809-1811
- The Works and Correspondence of David Ricardo, Vol. 4 Pamphlets and Papers 1815-1823
- The Works and Correspondence of David Ricardo, Vol. 5 Speeches and Evidence
- The Works and Correspondence of David Ricardo, Vol. 6 Letters 1810-1815
- The Works and Correspondence of David Ricardo, Vol. 7 Letters 1816-1818
- The Works and Correspondence of David Ricardo, Vol. 8 Letters 1819-June 1821
- The Works and Correspondence of David Ricardo, Vol. 9 Letters 1821-1823
- The Works and Correspondence of David Ricardo, Vol. 10 Biographical Miscellany
- The Works and Correspondence of David Ricardo, Vol. 11 General Index
Essay Economics and Ideology: Aspects of the Post-Ricardian Literature
Samuel Hollander
A number of criticisms to Ricardo’s central ideas are discussed in this essay.
Essay Searching for Capitalism in the Wreckage of Globalization
Oren Cass
In this article the author argues that Ricardo’s concept of comparative advantage is not of general application.
Book An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations (Cannan ed.), in 2 vols.
Like all other classical economists, David Ricardo’s works are based on the pathbreaking work of Adam Smith.
Book Principles of Political Economy (Ashley ed.)
Some of the most consequential debates on principles of economics were the ones that Ricardo had with Malthus, for instance, on the concept of economic rent.