John P. Hendersons <strong>The Life and Economics of David Ricardo</strong> represents thefirst comprehensive personal and intellectual biography of the brillia... » 

John P. Hendersons The Life and Economics of David Ricardo represents thefirst comprehensive personal and intellectual biography of the brilliant andinfluential British economist. Employing the talents of both a biographer andan economist the author examines Ricardos early years his Sephardic originsand his employment in the London financial markets as well as his later workon money and banking international trade economic instability and the theoryof rent and value. Henderson also provides a thorough investigation ofRicardos relationships with Thomas Robert Malthus and other classicaleconomists. The Life and Economics of David Ricardo will be of interest notonly to historians of economic thought and students of economics but also toany economist working in the Ricardian or Classical Political Economytradition. «