Talk:David Ricardo
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Dates Issue
[edit]Thought this could merit highlighting. The article says "Ricardo wrote the Plan for the Establishment of a National Bank in 1824 arguing for the autonomy of the central bank as the issuer of money." but also that he died in 1823. I'm not familiar enough with the facts to correct, but I'm assuming 1824 must therefore be the publication date, and the composition date sometime earlier? — Preceding unsigned comment added by 92.7.161.92 (talk) 15:26, 7 March 2021 (UTC)
- good catch—the original book says it was authored by "the late" David Ricardo, so I assume it was published posthumously. Updated to reflect this.
- CongealedBox (talk) 21:25, 11 April 2022 (UTC)
- In The Works of David Ricardo, edited by J. R. McCulloch, is a note on the Plan saying "the following pages were found among his papers after his decease". The Gale/Dartmouth link above is inaccessible to me. DuncanHill (talk) 21:33, 11 April 2022 (UTC)
Neutrality
[edit]The comparative advantage section degenerates into an attack on trade, which is not only inappropriate for a biography but wouldn't be neutral in an economics article. For example,
"The development economist Ha-Joon Chang challenges the argument that free trade benefits every country: [quote]."
These are the kinds of statements that are sourced to fringe, unorthodox or otherwise obscure economists.
We don't need to speculate on what mainstream economists think about free trade because we already have surveys of opinion[1]. It enjoys nearly unanimous support and thus it is worth reminding editors that Wikipedia is a mainstream encyclopedia. This means that writers and editors on Wikipedia should strive for articles that would be appreciated as being of the highest quality by a consensus of experts in any field of science or scholarship. Crucially, this means that Wikipedia content is not based on a popularity contest.
In other words, economic populism doesn't belong in articles about economics. Jonathan f1 (talk) 02:49, 31 October 2022 (UTC)
Where’s Marx?
[edit]Karl Marx's economic theory is significantly influenced by Ricardo. In fact Marx presents his ideas by way of taking, or attempting to take, Ricardo's theory to its natural conclusion. Marx cites Ricardo extensively throughout Das Kapital as well as his draft Theories of Surplus Value, both which can be considered core elements of Marx's work.
It seems incontestable that Marx is more notable than Sraffa, yet only the latter is mentioned in the Influences section. Flavoredquark (talk) 21:12, 14 December 2023 (UTC)
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