David Ricardo: A Centenary Estimate (Classic Reprint)

Excerpt from David Ricardo: A Centenary Estimate The result was an intense struggle on the part of the Eng lish agriculturist and his sympathizers to preserve the home market by maintaining the domestic value Of grain at what was vaguely term-cd a remunerative price. This struggle was aggravated by mistaken protective legislation tending at times to a domestic glut, and it was made vehemently articulate by the social and political prominence of the land owning class. Herein lies the explanation of that intense sensitiveness on the part Of parliament and public opinion to agricultural complaints, that constitutes the agricultural fer ment pervading the economic life of the half century. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.