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David Ricardo
David Ricardo was a British political economist and one of the leading classical economists. His Principles of Political Economy and Taxation (1817) developed the theory of comparative advantage, the labour theory of value and the law of diminishing returns; he made a fortune as a stockbroker and, as a member of Parliament, argued against the Corn Laws.
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