Unto This Last · Character
David Ricardo
A classical economist whose theories of value and wealth the narrator cites only to expose how neatly they sidestep the question of who gets what.
supporting
Also known as Mr. Ricardo, Ricardo
First appearance: Unto This Last
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Mentioned as another key figure in classical economics whose ideas are challenged in the chapter.
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Ricardo functions in the text as the technical authority behind the popular economist's confidence — the man whose laws of value and distribution are treated as settled science. The friction is that his abstractions…
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