Brad DeLong — Ricardo’s Big Idea, and Its Vicissitudes

Summary:
Brad DeLong shows how Ricardo's version of economic liberalism based on free trade explained by comparative advantage is bourgeois liberalism that enriches the ownership class. Washington Center for Equitable Growth Ricardo’s Big Idea, and Its Vicissitudes Brad DeLong | Professor of Economics at the University of California, Berkeley

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Mike Norman considers the following as important: bourgeois liberalism, Classical economics, Comparative Advantage, David Ricardo, economic liberalism, Free Trade

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