Under a system of perfectly free commerce, each country naturally devotes its capital and labour to such employments as are most beneficial to each.
Economists
David Ricardo
Born in London in 1772 to a Jewish immigrant family, David Ricardo rose from stockbroker to the foremost theorist of classical economics. His comparative advantage doctrine gave free trade its most rigorous defense.
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David Ricardo's Other Quotes
The interest of the landlord is always opposed to the interest of every other class in the community.
Our differences may have never made the slightest difference to our friendship; I should not like you more than I do if you agreed in opinion with me.
Rent is that portion of the produce of the earth which is paid to the landlord for the use of the original and indestructible powers of the soil.
Rent is that portion of the produce of the earth which is paid to the landlord for the use of the original and indestructible powers of the soil.