David Ricardo (18 April 1772 – 11 September 1823) was a British political economist. He was one of the most influential of the classical economists along with Thomas Malthus Adam Smith and James Mill. He began his professional life as a broker and financial market speculator. He amassed a considerable personal fortune largely from financial market speculation and having retired bought a seat in the U.K. Parliament. He held his parliamentary seat for the last four years of his life.
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1772-04-18, 1772-04-19
birth place
London
death date
1823-09-11
death place
Gloucestershire, Gatcombe Park
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Portrait of David Ricardo by Thomas Phillips circa 1821. This painting shows Ricardo aged 49 just two years before his relatively early death.
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