Salvadori, Neri; Signorino, Rodolfo - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2013
The paper proposes a rational reconstruction of the arguments developed by Malthus and Ricardo in their 1815 essays, Grounds of an Opinion and An Essay on Profits, to repudiate and endorse a policy of free corn trade, respectively. Malthus envisaged defence and opulence as two mutually...