On the Principles of Political Economy and Taxation

On the Principles of Political Economy and Taxation
Title page from the first edition
Author(s)	David Ricardo
Country	England
Language	English
Subject(s)	Economics
Publisher	John Murray
Publication date	1817

On the Principles of Political Economy and Taxation (1817) is a book by David Ricardo on economics. The book concludes that land rent grows as population increases. It also clearly lays out the theory of comparative advantage, which shows that all nations can benefit from free trade, even if a nation lacks an absolute advantage in all sectors of its economy.

Ricardo claims in the preface that Turgot, Stuart, Adam Smith, Jean-Baptiste Say, Sismondi, and others had not written enough "satisfactory information" on the topics of rent, profit, and wages. Principles of Political Economy is ostensibly Ricardo's effort to fill that gap in the literature. Regardless of whether the book achieved that goal, it secured, according to Ronald Max Hartwell, Ricardo's position among the great classical economists Adam Smith, Thomas Robert Malthus, John Stuart Mill, and Karl Heinrich Marx.

Some of this article's content is derived from the Wikipedia article "David Ricardo".

External links

• On the Principles of Political Economy and Taxation, by David Ricardo. Complete, fully searchable text at the Library of Economics and Liberty.
• Ricardo on Value: the Three Chapter Ones. A presentation tracing the changes in the Principles' (University of Southampton).
• Biography of David Ricardo, at the Concise Encyclopedia of Economics

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