Letters of David Ricardo to Thomas Robert Malthus, 1810-1823
Letters of David Ricardo to Thomas Robert Malthus, 1810-1823
By David Ricardo
17 Oct, 2019
The letters in this collection were written between 1810 and 1823, the last ones dating only a few days before Ricardo's death. The letters are mostly devoted to discussing the many questions in political economy on which the two authors disagreed. M
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The letters in this collection were written between 1810 and 1823, the last ones dating only a few days before Ricardo's death. The letters are mostly devoted to discussing the many questions in political economy on which the two authors disagreed. Malthus' letters to Ricardo are lost, so we have only Ricardo's response to Malthus. The two men were personal friends and were often in each other's company, but on economic themes, they differed widely. Less