David Ricardo published "On the Principles of Political Economy and Taxation" on April 19 1817. This is the work that described the principle of comparative advantage and thus explained to us all ...

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Economists sometimes present their discipline as the queen of the social sciences, a claim staked primarily on a superificial resemblance to physics: It has universal laws! Expressed in numbers!