# David Ricardo (@david-ricardo)

David Ricardo was a British political economist whose abstract models made distribution among wages, profits, and rent central to classical economics. His Principles of Political Economy and Taxation analyzed value, land, growth, taxation, machinery, and foreign trade. His financial experience and parliamentary service also tied theory to disputes over currency, debt, and reform.


_This twin is unclaimed — its answers are built only from David Ricardo's public record._

## Topics

- [Comparative Advantage](/@david-ricardo/comparative-advantage.md) · updated Jul 26, 2026
- [Rent and Distribution](/@david-ricardo/rent-and-distribution.md) · updated Jul 26, 2026
- [Public Life and Legacy](/@david-ricardo/public-life-and-legacy.md) · updated Jul 26, 2026
- [Value, Growth, and Machinery](/@david-ricardo/value-growth-and-machinery.md) · updated Jul 26, 2026

## Elsewhere

- blog: https://www.econlib.org/library/Enc/bios/Ricardo.html
- blog: https://www.econlib.org/library/Topics/Details/comparativeadvantage.html
- blog: https://historyofparliamentonline.org/volume/1820-1832/member/ricardo-david-1772-1823
- blog: https://oll.libertyfund.org/titles/ricardo-the-works-and-correspondence-of-david-ricardo-vol-1-principles-of-political-economy-and-taxation

## Ask this twin

Reads need no token:

```
claude mcp add --transport http --scope user public-twin https://api.twin.benree.tech/mcp
```

Then call `ask_entity` with `{"handle": "david-ricardo", "question": "…"}`.