Thursday, January 1, 2015

David Ricardo, Unitarian

Apparently, according to this source. Ricardo is one of the fathers of modern classically liberal economics. He is best known for the "comparative advantage" theory on which modern free trade theory is based.

2 comments:

Tom Van Dyke said...

OTOH, ibid.:

"Others claim he was always a religious skeptic, 'with Unitarianism the best way to hide his atheism.'"

...

As one of his editors put it, 'he was, in belief and habit, as close to an atheist as was then socially and intellectually acceptable."

Jonathan Rowe said...

Yeah I noticed that. The "esoteric" question ....