Ricardian Economics

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1. Introduction A Note on Ricardo Criticism 2. Ricardo's System 1. Corn Laws and Food Prices 2. The Rentless Margin 3. The Invariable Measure of Value 4. The Fundamental Theorem of Distribution 5. Pessimism versus Optimism 6. A Labor Theory of Value? 3. The Heyday of Ricardian Economics 1. The Triumph of the New Political Economy 2. The Only Two Disciples 3. Bailey's Attack 4. The Status of Ricardian Economics by 1830 4. Ricardo on Full Employment 1. Ricardo's New Views on the Machinery Question 2. The Machinery Question in Classical Economics 3. Marxian Unemployment and Keynesian Unemployment 5. Malthus' Heresy on Gluts 1. Malthus' Opposition to Ricardo 2. The Optimum Propensity to Save 3. The Defense of the Law of Markets 4. Physiocracy and the Theory of Gluts 5. The Outcome of the Debate 6. Population and Wages 1. Malthus' Principle of Population 2. Neo-Malthusianism 3. The Eclipse of the Malthusian Doctrine in the 1830,s 4. John Stuart Mill on Population 5. The Wages Fund Doctrine 6. An Alternative Theory of Wages 7. Political Economy to Be Read as Literature 1. The Malthusian Theory of Population 2. Poor Laws 3. Free Trade 4. The Ricardian Theory of Distribution 5. The Wages Fund and Trade Unions 6. Functions of Government 8. Voices in the Wilderness 1. The Ricardian Socialists 2. Jones and the Theory of Rent 3. The Abstinence Theory of Profit 4. Longfield's Lectures 5. Robert Torrens' Volte-Face 9. The Half-Way House of John Stuart Mill 1. Mill's Intellectual Sources 2. Harmony or Disharmony of Interests? 3. The Theory of Value 4. Productive and Unproductive Consumption 5. Secular Changes in Wages, Profits, andRents 6. The Empirical Relevance of RicardianEconomics 7. The Stationary State and Socialism 10. Matters of Economic Policy 1. The Framework of the Debate 2. The Poor Laws 3. Free Trade and the Manchester School 4. Post-Mortem on the Com Laws 11. The Closing Decades: Fawcett and Cairnes 12. Conclusion. The Evolution of RicardianEconomics Appendix A. Ricardo and Marx Appendix B. Malthus and Keynes Appendix C. McCulloch's Critique oftheFactory System Bibliography Index