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Ricardo

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Ri·car·do  (r-kärd), David 1772-1823.
British economist whose major work, Principles of Political Economy and Taxation (1817), supported the laws of supply and demand in a free market.
Ricardo [rɪˈkɑːdəʊ]
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(Biographies / Ricardo, David (1772-1823) M, British, SOCIAL SCIENCE: economist) David. 1772-1823, British economist. His main work is Principles of Political Economy and Taxation (1817)
Ricardian  adj & n
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Noun1.Ricardo - English economist who argued that the laws of supply and demand should operate in a free market (1772-1823)
David Ricardo


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By this letter thou wilt see, Cardenio, the disposition the Duke Ricardo has to serve thee.
Don Quixote by Cervantes, Miguel View in context
Malthus and Ricardo quite omit it; the Annual Register is silent; in the Conversations' Lexicon it is not set down; the President's Message, the Queen's Speech, have not mentioned it; and yet it is never nothing.
Essays, Second Series by Emerson, Ralph Waldo View in context
On the one shelf at the library he found Karl Marx, Ricardo, Adam Smith, and Mill, and the abstruse formulas of the one gave no clew that the ideas of another were obsolete.
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