David Ricardo
David Ricardo
David Ricardowas an English political economist. He was one of the most influential of the classical economists, along with Thomas Malthus, Adam Smith, and James Mill...
NationalityBritish
ProfessionNon-Fiction Author
Date of Birth18 April 1772
country prosperity profit
Nothing contributes so much to the prosperity and happiness of a country as high profits.
wages profit farmers
The farmer and manufacturer can no more live without profit than the labourer without wages.
british-economist commodity increase lower realized regulate
If the quantity of labour realized in commodities, regulate their exchangeable value, every increase of the quantity of labour must augment the value of that commodity on which it is exercised, as every diminution must lower it.
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In the course of these observations, I have often had occasion to insist, that rent never falls without the profits of stock rising.