David Ricardo, born in 1772, became interested in economics at the age of 27 after a chance reading of Adam Smith’s The Wealth of Nations (1776). Ricardo did not become a full-time professional ...

If you studied any college-level economics, you probably remember David Ricardo’s name. He was the other founder of classic economic theory, after Adam Smith, and his “comparative advantage ...

One of the greatest economists who ever lived was also one of the earliest -- and most successful -- quants. David Ricardo (1772-1823) developed principles of trade and monetary theory that helped ...

Economists are puzzled: the data contradict the predictions of David Ricardo, one of the founding fathers of their discipline. Countries, said Ricardo, export what they are relatively efficient at ...

Ricardo Amorim is following the path of Joelmir Betting, a distinguished Brazilian journalist, radio and TV anchorman, and economics-specialized columnist, who died in 2012. Both have honed the ...

Left: Portrait of British economist David Ricardo. Right: Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent attends an event at the Economic Club of New York in New York City, March 6, 2025.

One area in which economists typically speak with one voice is international trade. They have been staunch advocates of free trade dating back to Adam Smith and David Ricardo. Throughout the post ...

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 ...