David Ricardo


David Ricardo was an English political economist. He was one of the most influential of the classical economists, along with Thomas Malthus, Adam Smith, and James Mill.

Ricardo is buried in an ornate grave in the churchyard of Saint Nicholas in Hardenhuish, now a suburb of Chippenham, Wiltshire. The inscription on his grave reads A Jew, born in Holland, he was one of the first free traders and a famous Radical in his day. At the time of his death his fortune was estimated at about 600,000.

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