Contentiously asserts that Ricardo stands in a continuous analytical line leading from Adam Smith to Alfred Marshall. This book provides the material necessary to evaluate this provoking contribution to the history of economic thought.

Introduction; Part 1 On the Interpretation of the Early Ricardo; Chapter 1 Ricardo's Analysis of the Profit Rate, 1813-15; Chapter 2 Ricardo and the Corn Profit Model: Reply to Eatwell; Chapter 3 Professor Garegnani's Defence Of Sraffa On The Material Rate Of Profit; Chapter 4 On a 'New Interpretation' of Ricardo's Early Treatment of Profitability; Chapter 5 Sraffa's Rational Reconstruction of Ricardo: On Three Contributions to the Cambridge Journal of Economics; Part 2 Responses to critics of The Economics of DavidRicardo; Chapter 6 The Economics of David Ricardo: A Response to Professor O'Brien; Chapter 7 A Reply To Professor Roncaglia; Chapter 8 'Professor Hollander And Ricardian Economics': A Reply To Professor Moss; Part 3 Ricardian Micro-Economics; Chapter 9 On The Substantive Identity Of The Ricardian And Neo-Classical Conceptions Of Economic Organization: The French Connection In British Classicism; Chapter 10 Why Marshall Was Right About Ricardo; Chapter 11 On Composition Of Demand And Income Distribution In Classical Economics; Chapter 12 On The Endogeneity Of The Margin And Related Issues In Ricardian Economics; Part 4 The Ricardian growth model; Chapter 13 on the interpretation of ricardian economics: the assumption regarding wages; Chapter 14 The Wage Path In Classical Growth Models: Ricardo, Malthus And Mill; Chapter 15 Ricardian Growth Theory: A Resolution of Some Problems in Textual Interpretation; Chapter 16 A Reply to Professor Stigler and Dr Peach; Chapter 17 On the Textual Interpretation of Ricardian Growth Theory: the 'New View' Confirmed (Again); Part 5 Further intellectual linkages; Chapter 18 The Reception of Ricardian Economics; Chapter 19 The Role Of Bentham In The Early Development Of Ricardian Theory: A Speculative Essay; Chapter 20 On Professor Samuelson's Canonical Classical Model Of Political Economy;