David Ricardo was a very influential political economist in the history of economic thought. Born in London on April 18, 1772, and departing on September 11, 1823; he was among the likes of Thomas Malthus and Adam Smith. Ricardo was one of seventeen children in a Sephardic Jewish family (from Portugal) that emigrated from the Netherlands to Great Britain just prior to his birth. At age 14, Ricardo joined his father at the London Stock Exchange, where he began to learn about the workings of finance. This beginning set the stage for Ricardo's later success in the stock market and real estate.
In his first encounter with economics, Ricardo became interested after reading Adam Smith's The Wealth of Nations in 1799 on a vacation to an English resort. Ricardo's work with the stock exchange made him quite wealthy, which allowed him to retire from business in 1814 at the age of 42. He then purchased and moved to Gatcombe Park, an estate in Gloucestershire.. Ricardo was a close friend of......

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