The natural price of labour is that price which is necessary to enable the labourers, one with another, to subsist and to perpetuate their race, without either increase or diminution.
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The rise or fall of wages is common to all states of society, whether it be the stationary, the advancing, or the retrograde state.
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| Birth: | 18th April, 1772 |
| Death: | 11th September, 1823 |
| Nationality: | British |
| Profession: | Economist |
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David Ricardo was born in London. He was a British political economist, stock trader, and author. He was often credited with systematising economics, and was one of the most influential of the classical economists, along with Thomas Malthus, Adam Smith, and John Stuart Mill.
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