David Ricardo – First Principle

History of my economic thinking in dialogue with Schumpeter

While reading Joseph Schumpeter’s History of Economic Analysis I was deeply impressed by Schumpeter’s reverence for Ricardo. This inspired me to put my acquaintance with Ricardo into words and then to indicate, in dialogue with Schumpeter, how my thinking about Ricardo’s theory of value has developed.

This page allows you to download the article History of my economic thinking in dialogue with Schumpeter. The first part describes the development of my thinking up to and including my studies at the university. The second part covers my working life after my studies. At some point I refer to a more technical paper On Samuelson’s analysis of imperfect competition, which you can also download below.