David Ricardo · Economics
Ricardo made the central question of economics not how wealth is <em>produced</em> but how it is <em>divided</em> - among landlords, capitalists, and workers locked in conflict.
You learned that Ricardo framed economics around distribution among three classes. Explain how rent, profit, and wages pull against each other, and what the ‘natural wage’ was, in your own words.
Leads to Karl Marx.
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