Talk:David Ricardo

Latest comment: 5 months ago by ~2025-39175-98 in topic needs edit for clarity

Where’s Marx?

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Karl Marx's economic theory is significantly influenced by Ricardo. In fact Marx presents his ideas by way of taking, or attempting to take, Ricardo's theory to its natural conclusion. Marx cites Ricardo extensively throughout Das Kapital as well as his draft Theories of Surplus Value, both which can be considered core elements of Marx's work.

It seems incontestable that Marx is more notable than Sraffa, yet only the latter is mentioned in the Influences section. Flavoredquark (talk) 21:12, 14 December 2023 (UTC)Reply

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"Due to his criticisms of the Labour Theory of Value George Stigler called his theory a "93% labor theory of value".[27]

Ricardo's most famous work is his Principles of Political Economy and Taxation (1817). He advanced a labour theory of value:[28]"

It seems these sentences are out of order and it is still unclear who each of the pronouns refers to. At the very least, there should be a comma between value and george  Preceding unsigned comment added by ~2025-39175-98 (talk) 02:10, 23 December 2025 (UTC)Reply