David Ricardo · Economics
Ricardo’s startling change of mind - admitting that machines, the engines of progress, can throw workers out of jobs and hurt the labouring class.
You learned that Ricardo reversed his view on machinery. Explain what he came to admit, and the ‘compensation’ argument he was arguing against, in your own words.
Leads to John Maynard Keynes.
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