The Life and Economics of David Ricardo

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I. The Multiple Role of the BiographerRicardo’s Three Careers -- Ricardo The Man and His Times -- Ricardo and the Economists -- Sraff’s Ricardo -- The Post-Sraffa Literature -- The Ingredients ol Biography -- II. The Sephardic Heritage in English Society Religion ana Commerce 55 -- The Judan-Israel Kingdom -- The Early Jews of England -- The Period of the Expulsion -- The London Sephardim -- III. The Family Heritage: Eighteenth-Century Finance -- The Israel Ricardos -- The New Instruments of Credit and Finance -- Origins of the London Stock Exchange -- The Jacobite Threat -- The Family of Abraham Israel Ricardo and Abigail Delvalle -- IV. Boyhood in London and Amsterdam -- Countryside and City -- The City and MetropoIis of London -- The London MOB -- The Parental Family -- David’s Education -- The Years in Amsterdam -- A Rite of Passage -- V. The Taming of Tradition -- Bow and Old Ford -- The Identity Conflict -- “Osman” and “Jesse” -- The Lifestyle of David and Priscilla -- VI. THe Gestation of an Economist: Early Financial Career -- The Water and the Fisk -- “Romer’s Rule” -- “Let Your Profits Run On” -- Political Economy During the First Decade ot the Century -- Monetary Expediency -- VII. Malthus and the Corn Law:Ricardo and his Circle -- James Mill and Robert Malthus -- Tke Private Dedate. 1811-1815 -- Public Debate 1815: Malthus and Ricardo on the Corn Law -- “Over Again More at Large” -- The Facility of Production, Relative Prices and the Effects Upon Profits -- Bank ot England Profits and A Partial Return to Specie Payment -- VIII. Ricardo’s Principles and the Question of Value -- The Provident lnstitutions -- New Critics and Converts -- Writing the Principles -- The Role of Ricardo’s Theory of Value -- The Theory of Value in the Firsl Edition -- The Reaction to Ricarao’s First Edition -- Changes in Ricardo’s Second Edition -- The Theory of Value in the Third Edition -- IX. Friendly Critics: Malthus and Ricardo on Political Economy -- Malthus’s Concept of Effective Demand and Its Influence Upon Ricardian Analysis -- Malthu’s Theory of Value -- The Role of Demand -- The Theory of Profits -- The Theory of Rent -- Summary of Malthus’s Principles -- Ricardo’s “Notes on Malthus” -- Malthus’s Measure of Value -- The Political Economy Club: Robert Torrens and the Decline of Ricardo’s Influence -- X. A new Career in Politics -- The Debale Over Ricardo in Parliament -- Ricardo’s Two Essays on Parliamentary Reform -- “Observations on Parliamentary Reform” -- “Defense of the Plan of Voting By Ballot” -- Ricardo on Religious Toleration -- Conclusions -- XI. Equivocation: The Effects of Machinery on the Demand for Labor -- Barton’s Observations -- “On Machinery” -- The Challenge to Ricardo’s Vision -- The Challenge to Ricardo’s Economic Methodology -- Concluding Remarks -- XII. The Search for a Measure of Absolute Value -- Ricardo’s Two Problems in Thinking About An Invariable Standard -- “Absolute Value and Exchangeable Value” -- The First Draft -- The Unfinished Draft -- Sraffa’s Interpretation -- XIII. A Critique of the Twentieth Century Perspective -- The Partial Eclipse of Ricardian Theory -- The Sraffa Edition on Ricardo -- The Reaction to Sraffa’s “Ricardo” -- Conclusion -- References.

10.1007/978-1-4615-6129-3 [DOI]

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