Interpreting Ricardo

ISBN-13: 9780521260862 / Angielski / Twarda / 1993 / 334 str.

Terry Peach

Opis

David Ricardo was the leading political economist of the early nineteenth century, and his ideas have been controversial and influential ever since. This book sets out to reconstruct the detailed substance and evolution of Ricardo's thought on the central topics of value, distribution and accumulation, and to summarize and evaluate the debates that continue to rage over the interpretation of his writings. It differs from other books on the subject by presenting Ricardo's work in its own terms, not those imported from a later theoretical discourse.

Recenzje

Review of the hardback: 'In this exhilarating book, Terry Peach brilliantly rehabilitates the orthodox view of 'what Ricardo really meant' but not without taking due notice of the one-quarter truth of the 'new view'.' Mark Blaug, History of Economic Thought

Spis treści

1. Interpretations of David Ricardo; 2. From bullion to corn: the early writings; 3. The falling rate of profit, wages, and the law of markets; 4. The labour theory of value (i); 5. The labour theory of value (ii); 6. The appropriation of Ricardo; 7. Concluding remarks.