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This chapter contains a reprint of David Ricardo’s Chapter VII “On Foreign Trade”. The reprint is from the third edition of On the Principles of Political Economy and Taxation. Note that this is Ricardo’s final version of his text that remained unchanged. The book was published by John Murray in London in 1821 with an edition of 1000 copies. The first edition appeared on April 19, 1817 by the same publisher.
Originally published in: Ricardo, D. On the Principles of Political Economy and Taxation, 3rd ed., John Murray, London, 1821.
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We are indebted to the University of Basel Library which is in possession of one book of this rare edition of 1821 and made it available to us. We thank Claire-Lise Dovat for her support in photo printing the individual pages of Chapter VII.
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Ricardo, D. (2017). On Foreign Trade. In: Jones, R., Weder, R. (eds) 200 Years of Ricardian Trade Theory. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-60606-4_20
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