The Life and Economics of David Ricardo

1. Front Matter

   Pages i-xii

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2. The Multiple Role of the Biographer

   • John P. Henderson, John B. Davis

   Pages 15-49

3. The Sephardic Heritage in English Society

   • John P. Henderson, John B. Davis

   Pages 51-78

4. The Family Heritage: Eighteenth-Century Finance

   • John P. Henderson, John B. Davis

   Pages 79-111

5. Boyhood in London and Amsterdam

   • John P. Henderson, John B. Davis

   Pages 113-154

6. The Taming of Tradition

   • John P. Henderson, John B. Davis

   Pages 155-190

7. The Gestation of an Economist: Early Financial Career

   • John P. Henderson, John B. Davis

   Pages 191-267

8. Malthus and the Corn Law:Ricardo and his Circle

   • John P. Henderson, John B. Davis

   Pages 269-371

9. Ricardo’s Principles and the Question of Value

   • John P. Henderson, John B. Davis

   Pages 373-506

10. Friendly Critics: Malthus and Ricardo on Political Economy

    • John P. Henderson, John B. Davis

    Pages 507-554

11. A New Career in Politics

    • John P. Henderson, John B. Davis

    Pages 555-574

12. Equivocation: The Effects of Machinery on the Demand for Labor

    • John P. Henderson, John B. Davis

    Pages 575-594

13. The Search for a Measure of Absolute Value

    • John P. Henderson, John B. Davis

    Pages 595-614

14. A Critique of the Twentieth Century Perspective

    • John P. Henderson, John B. Davis

    Pages 615-656

15. Back Matter

    Pages 657-679

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John P. Henderson's The Life and Economics of David Ricardo represents the first comprehensive personal and intellectual biography of the brilliant and influential British economist. Employing the talents of both a biographer and an economist, the author examines Ricardo's early years, his Sephardic origins and his employment in the London financial markets, as well as his later work on money and banking, international trade, economic instability and the theory of rent and value. Henderson also provides a thorough investigation of Ricardo's relationships with Thomas Robert Malthus and other classical economists.
The Life and Economics of David Ricardo will be of interest not only to historians of economic thought and students of economics, but also to any economist working in the Ricardian or Classical Political Economy tradition.

• David Ricardo
• Malthus
• Robert Malthus
• Thomas Robert Malthus
• economics
• employment
• financial markets
• instability
• international trade

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