However, as David Ricardo observed almost 200 years ago, economic optimisation is about comparative advantage.
We can support it with David Ricardo kinds of arguments--productivity, wealth and those good things.
As David Ricardo described way back in the 18th century, economies should focus on their comparative advantages.
The more transparent an economy becomes, the more David Ricardo's 19th-century law of comparative advantage rules the day.
Though David Ricardo would be on the Mr. Rushmore of most right-wing economic thinkers, his brilliance is ignored here.
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Comparative advantage was an idea developed by the economist David Ricardo in 1817.
The Law of Comparative Advantage was discovered by David Ricardo about 200 years ago, before there were rockets.
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As far back as 1817, David Ricardo explained why the best farmland often makes money for the landlord, not the farmer.
England's poor laws, which paid a pittance to the destitute out of taxes, earned David Ricardo's condemnation in the early 19th century.
David Ricardo came along in the early 19th century and showed us that open trade among creators produces the most wealth for all.
David Ricardo published in 1817 but it seems that no one in Oslo has got around to reading him yet, nor Adam Smith from 1776.
But it is a nice object lesson in the basic economic proposition first put forward by David Ricardo as the Iron Law of One Price.
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Traditional trade theory, based on the ideas of David Ricardo, a 19th-century economist, argues that economies gain from trade by specialising in products where they have a comparative advantage.
That theory is David Ricardo on rent.
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The authorities in Mexico say they have prevented the murder of two leftist legislators, brothers David and Ricardo Monreal.
Goalkeeper Jakub Divis made his Hibernian debut alongside David Stephens, Lewis Stevenson and Ricardo Vaz Te in a much-changed line-up, with Mark Brown, Liam Miller, Derek Riordan and David Wotherspoon all dropping to the bench.
Ricardo Woods, 35, fatally shot David Chandler, 35, in the head and neck in Cincinnati, Ohio, in October 2010.
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