...accumulation of capital and population, and on the skill, ingenuity, and instruments employed in agriculture. To determine the laws which regulate this distribution,...as the science has been improved by the writings of Turgot, Stuart, Smith, Say, Sismondi, and others, they afford very little satisfactory information...

...allotted to each of these, under the name of rent, profit and wages, will be essentially different .... To determine the laws which regulate this distribution is the principal problem in political economy. Subsequently Ravenstone (1821) and Hodgskin (1825) argued from Ricardo's work that there existed an...

...whole earth which will be allotted to each of these classes. . .will be essentially different. . . . To determine the laws which regulate this distribution, is the principal problem in Political Economy." The writings of Turgot, Steuart, Smith, Say, and Sismondi, however valuable they are in other respects,...

...each of these classes, under the names of rent, profit, and wages, will be essentially different. ... To determine the laws which regulate this distribution, is the principal problem in Political Economy." Smith 1 937, p. 69: "It is not the actual greatness of national wealth, but its continual increase,...

...committing their editorial abilities to this enterprise. 1. Introduction Hartmut Kaelble and Mark Thomas To determine the laws which regulate this distribution, is the principal problem in Political Economy. David Ricardo, 1819. Why should economic historians be interested in income distribution? There are...

...national income among the landlords, the capitalists and the laborers. He says in his preface that "to determine the laws which regulate this distribution is the principal problem of Political Economy." What was uppermost in his mind was undoubtedly the effect of the Corn Laws on...

...allotted to each of these classes under the names of rent, profit, wages, will be ... different. . . . [T]o determine the laws which regulate this distribution, is the principal problem in Political Economy.52 Ricardo's point of departure, with its one-sided emphasis on distribution and its implicit...

...application of labour, machinery, and capital — is divided among three classes of the community. ... To determine the laws which regulate this distribution is the principal problem of political economy." Political Economy, Preface. 27. In the introductory essay to his edition of...

...accumulation of capital and population, and on the skill, ingenuity, and instruments employed in agriculture. To determine the laws which regulate this distribution,...as the science has been improved by the writings of Turgot, Stuart, Smith, Say, Sismondi, and others, they afford very little satisfactory information...

...community,' wrote David Ricardo - viz., the proprietor of land, the owner of the capital and the 148 workers. 'To determine the laws which regulate this distribution is the principal problem in Political Economy' (Ricardo 1984, p. 3). Students of International Relations, notably diplomats and officers at first,...