David Ricardo

If the demand for home commodities should be diminished, because of the fall of rent on the part of the landlords, it…

— David Ricardo

The last point for consideration is the supposed disposition of the people to interfere with the rights of property. So essential does…

— David Ricardo

But it is clear that the price of labour has no necessary connection with the price of food, since it depends entirely…

— David Ricardo

LABOUR, like all other things which are purchased and sold, and which may be increased or diminished in quantity, has its natural…

— David Ricardo

The factors left out of the Ricardian equation are falling wages and idle capacity.

— David Ricardo

Profits might also increase, because improvements might take place in agriculture, or in the implements of husbandry, which would augment the produce…

— David Ricardo

The interest of the landlord is always opposed to the interests of every other class in the community.

— David Ricardo

The proportions, too, in which the capital that is to support labour, and the capital that is invested in tools, machinery and…

— David Ricardo

Neither a state nor a bank ever have had unrestricted power of issuing paper money without abusing that power.

— David Ricardo

There can be no greater error then in supposing that capital is increased by non-consumption.

— David Ricardo

Gold, on the contrary, though of little use compared with air or water, will exchange for a great quantity of other goods.

— David Ricardo

Every transaction in commerce is an independent transaction.

— David Ricardo

Taxation under every form presents but a choice of evils.

— David Ricardo

The wheat bought by a farmer to sow is comparatively a fixed capital to the wheat purchased by a baker to make…

— David Ricardo

If English money was of the same value then as before, Hamburgh money must have risen in value. But where is the…

— David Ricardo

Utility then is not the measure of exchangeable value, although it is absolutely essential to it.

— David Ricardo

Adam Smith, and other able writers to whom I have alluded, not having viewed correctly the principles of rent, have, it appears…

— David Ricardo

It is here we come to the heart of the matter. The economic principle of comparative advantage', 'a country may, in return…

— David Ricardo

But a tax on luxuries would no other effect than to raise their price. It would fall wholly on the consumer, and…

— David Ricardo

The farmer and manufacturer can no more live without profit than the labourer without wages.

— David Ricardo

The rise or fall of wages is common to all states of society, whether it be the stationary, the advancing, or the…

— David Ricardo

Neither machines, nor the commodities made by them, rise in real value, but all commodities made by machines fall, and fall in…

— David Ricardo