The Life and Economics of David Ricardo

I. The Multiple Role of the Biographer.- Ricardo's Three Careers.- Ricardo The Man and His Times.- Ricardo and the Economists.- Sraff's Ricardo.- The Post-Sraffa Literature.- The Ingredients ol Biography.- II. The Sephardic Heritage in English Society Religion ana Commerce 55.- The Judan-Israel Kingdom.- The Early Jews of England.- The Period of the Expulsion.- The London Sephardim.- III. The Family Heritage: Eighteenth-Century Finance.- The Israel Ricardos.- The New Instruments of Credit and Finance.- Origins of the London Stock Exchange.- The Jacobite Threat.- The Family of Abraham Israel Ricardo and Abigail Delvalle.- IV. Boyhood in London and Amsterdam.- Countryside and City.- The City and MetropoIis of London.- The London MOB.- The Parental Family.- David's Education.- The Years in Amsterdam.- A Rite of Passage.- V. The Taming of Tradition.- Bow and Old Ford.- The Identity Conflict.- "Osman" and "Jesse".- The Lifestyle of David and Priscilla.- VI. THe Gestation of an Economist: Early Financial Career.- The Water and the Fisk.- "Romer's Rule".- "Let Your Profits Run On".- Political Economy During the First Decade ot the Century.- Monetary Expediency.- VII. Malthus and the Corn Law:Ricardo and his Circle.- James Mill and Robert Malthus.- Tke Private Dedate. 1811-1815.- Public Debate 1815: Malthus and Ricardo on the Corn Law.- "Over Again More at Large".- The Facility of Production, Relative Prices and the Effects Upon Profits.- Bank ot England Profits and A Partial Return to Specie Payment.- VIII. Ricardo's Principles and the Question of Value.- The Provident lnstitutions.- New Critics and Converts.- Writing the Principles.- The Role of Ricardo's Theory of Value.- The Theory of Value in the Firsl Edition.- The Reaction to Ricarao'sFirst Edition.- Changes in Ricardo's Second Edition.- The Theory of Value in the Third Edition.- IX. Friendly Critics: Malthus and Ricardo on Political Economy.- Malthus's Concept of Effective Demand and Its Influence Upon Ricardian

John B. Davis is Professor of History and Philosophy of Economics and Co-director of the faculty research programme History and Methodology of Economics at the University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands, and Professor of Economics at Marquette University, USA.