On the Principles of Political Economy and Taxation
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- APADavid Ricardo. (n.d.). On the Principles of Political Economy and Taxation. Digital reproduction: SigPhi. https://sigphiai.com/ca/works/david-ricardo/on-the-principles-of-political-economy-and-taxation
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De què tracta
El llibre del 1817 que va donar a l'economia politica la seva forma deductiva: models abstractes, poques variables, conclusions rigoroses.
Context i història
Tres coses d'aqui han durat. La primera es la teoria de la renda: la terra pitjor que encara val la pena conrear fixa el preu, i el que produeixen les millors per damunt d'aixo va al propietari sense que hi faci res. La segona es l'avantatge comparatiu, l'argument —contraintuitiu i encara viu— que a dos paisos els convé comerciar encara que un sigui millor produint-ho tot. La tercera es la teoria del valor-treball, que Ricardo va deixar a mig resoldre i que Marx va agafar per un altre cantó. La seva manera de raonar, mes que les seves conclusions, es el que ha marcat l'economia posterior; l'anomenat «vici ricardià» —deduir del model conclusions sobre el mon sense mirar-lo— ve del seu exemple.
Context editorial, no una font citable: a diferència dels passatges de l'obra, aquestes dades no es poden contrastar amb el corpus.
If we suppose the occupations of the society extended, that some provide canoes and tackle necessary for fishing, others the seed and rude machinery first used in agriculture, still the same principle would hold true, that the exchangeable value of the commodities produced would be in proportion to the labour bestowed on their production; not on their immediate production only, but on all those implements or machines required to give effect to the particular labour to which they were applied. If we look to a state of society in which greater improvements have been made, and in which arts and commerce flourish, we shall still find that commodities vary in value conformably with this principle: in estimating the exchangeable value of stockings, for example, we shall find that their value, comparatively with other things, depends on the total quantity of labour necessary to manufacture them, and bring them to market. First, there is the labour necessary to cultivate the land on which the raw cotton is grown; secondly, the labour of conveying the cotton to the country where the stockings are to be manufactured, which includes a portion of the labour bestowed in building the ship in which it is conveyed, and which is charged in the freight of the goods; thirdly, the labour of the spinner and weaver; fourthly, a portion of the labour of the engineer, smith, and carpenter, who erected the buildings and machinery, by the help of which they are made; fifthly, the labour of the retail dealer, and of many others, whom it is unnecessary further to particularize. The aggregate sum of these various kinds of labour, determines the quantity of other things for which these stockings will exchange, while the same consideration of the various quantities of labour which have been bestowed on those other things, will equally govern the portion of them which will be given for the stockings.