The Life and Economics of David Ricardo

Henderson, John P. and John B. Davis; edited by John B. Davis

ISBN 10: 0792399374 / ISBN 13: 9780792399377

Published by Kluwer Academic Publishers, 1997

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679 pages. About the British political economist (1772 - 1823). First edition (first printing). A near fine hardcover copy; no dust jacket. Inscribed on the front free endpaper by the author's wife: 'For Steve Gould, whose writing John much admired, though he didn't share my fascination with the ultimate mystery -- evolution. / Best wishes / Margaret Henderson.' From the Harvard office library of the paleontologist and leading advocate for evolution, Stephen Jay Gould. With a posthumous tipped in bookplate indicating the provenance. *** Intellectually, Gould understood the true nature of these bookplates, but the book collector in him appreciated them. In his essay 'A Seahorse for All Races' Gould writes about one of his prized possessions, a book from Charles Dickens' library: 'Dickens made no annotations, but a bookplate on the cover, presumably inserted as a come-on for a sale after Dickens' death in 1870, does prove that [he] kept and shelved the book.' *** We offer our Gould bookplates, printed letterpress in two colors, in the same spirit. 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.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: The Life and Economics of David Ricardo
• Publisher: Kluwer Academic Publishers
• Publication Date: 1997
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0792399374
• ISBN 13: 9780792399377
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition: First Edition.
• Weight: 40.01 ounces
• Signed: Signed by Other
• Seller catalogs:
  • Biography & Memoir

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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.