1772 - 1823
David Ricardo (18 April 1772 – 11 September 1823) was a British political economist, one of the most influential of the classical economists along with Thomas Malthus, Adam Smith and James Mill. Read more on Wikipedia
Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of David Ricardo has received more than 1,815,628 page views. His biography is available in 78 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 73 in 2019). David Ricardo is the 6th most popular economist (down from 4th in 2019), the 60th most popular biography from United Kingdom (down from 52nd in 2019) and the 5th most popular British Economist.
David Ricardo is most famous for his theory of comparative advantage. This theory states that countries should produce goods in which they have a comparative advantage, and trade for goods in which they have a comparative disadvantage.
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Among economists, David Ricardo ranks 6 out of 315. Before him are Karl Marx, Adam Smith, John Maynard Keynes, Thomas Robert Malthus, and John Stuart Mill. After him are Milton Friedman, Friedrich Hayek, Vilfredo Pareto, Joseph Schumpeter, Alfred Marshall, and François Quesnay.
1818 - 1883
HPI: 93.23
Rank: 1
1723 - 1790
HPI: 91.58
Rank: 2
1883 - 1946
HPI: 85.97
Rank: 3
1766 - 1834
HPI: 84.00
Rank: 4
1806 - 1873
HPI: 83.59
Rank: 5
1772 - 1823
HPI: 83.23
Rank: 6
1912 - 2006
HPI: 80.89
Rank: 7
1899 - 1992
HPI: 80.70
Rank: 8
1848 - 1923
HPI: 80.35
Rank: 9
1883 - 1950
HPI: 79.70
Rank: 10
1842 - 1924
HPI: 78.59
Rank: 11
1694 - 1774
HPI: 77.84
Rank: 12
Among people born in 1772, David Ricardo ranks 1. After him are Novalis, Charles Fourier, William I of the Netherlands, Friedrich Schlegel, Maria Theresa of Naples and Sicily, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Ram Mohan Roy, Étienne Geoffroy Saint-Hilaire, Nachman of Breslov, Fath-Ali Shah Qajar, and Louis Antoine, Duke of Enghien. Among people deceased in 1823, David Ricardo ranks 2. Before him is Edward Jenner. After him are Pope Pius VII, Louis-Nicolas Davout, Lazare Carnot, Jacques Charles, Edmund Cartwright, Ann Radcliffe, Giovanni Battista Belzoni, Charles François Dumouriez, Abraham-Louis Breguet, and André-Jacques Garnerin.
1772 - 1823
HPI: 83.23
Rank: 1
1772 - 1801
HPI: 80.44
Rank: 2
1772 - 1837
HPI: 79.09
Rank: 3
1772 - 1843
HPI: 77.52
Rank: 4
1772 - 1829
HPI: 75.49
Rank: 5
1772 - 1807
HPI: 74.87
Rank: 6
1772 - 1834
HPI: 73.85
Rank: 7
1772 - 1833
HPI: 72.31
Rank: 8
1772 - 1844
HPI: 72.30
Rank: 9
1772 - 1810
HPI: 71.99
Rank: 10
1772 - 1834
HPI: 70.79
Rank: 11
1772 - 1804
HPI: 70.55
Rank: 12
1749 - 1823
HPI: 84.65
Rank: 1
1772 - 1823
HPI: 83.23
Rank: 2
1742 - 1823
HPI: 81.93
Rank: 3
1770 - 1823
HPI: 76.02
Rank: 4
1753 - 1823
HPI: 73.00
Rank: 5
1763 - 1823
HPI: 72.18
Rank: 6
1743 - 1823
HPI: 72.07
Rank: 7
1764 - 1823
HPI: 71.46
Rank: 8
1778 - 1823
HPI: 71.22
Rank: 9
1739 - 1823
HPI: 70.93
Rank: 10
1747 - 1823
HPI: 70.43
Rank: 11
1769 - 1823
HPI: 69.82
Rank: 12
Among people born in United Kingdom, David Ricardo ranks 60 out of 6,924. Before him are Lewis Carroll (1832), Oliver Cromwell (1599), Virginia Woolf (1882), John Stuart Mill (1806), Richard Burton (1925), and Charles, Prince of Wales (1948). After him are Edward VI of England (1537), George VI (1895), Princess Margaret, Countess of Snowdon (1930), Henry VII of England (1457), Mary Shelley (1797), and Paul McCartney (1942).
1832 - 1898
HPI: 83.81
Rank: 54
1599 - 1658
HPI: 83.79
Rank: 55
1882 - 1941
HPI: 83.68
Rank: 56
1806 - 1873
HPI: 83.59
Rank: 57
1925 - 1984
HPI: 83.54
Rank: 58
1948 - Present
HPI: 83.31
Rank: 59
1772 - 1823
HPI: 83.23
Rank: 60
1537 - 1553
HPI: 83.09
Rank: 61
1895 - 1952
HPI: 83.04
Rank: 62
1930 - 2002
HPI: 82.98
Rank: 63
1457 - 1509
HPI: 82.82
Rank: 64
1797 - 1851
HPI: 82.80
Rank: 65
1942 - Present
HPI: 82.79
Rank: 66
Among economists born in United Kingdom, David Ricardo ranks 5. Before him are Adam Smith (1723), John Maynard Keynes (1883), Thomas Robert Malthus (1766), and John Stuart Mill (1806). After him are Alfred Marshall (1842), John Law (1671), William Petty (1623), Ronald Coase (1910), John Hicks (1904), Benjamin Graham (1894), and William Stanley Jevons (1835).
1723 - 1790
HPI: 91.58
Rank: 1
1883 - 1946
HPI: 85.97
Rank: 2
1766 - 1834
HPI: 84.00
Rank: 3
1806 - 1873
HPI: 83.59
Rank: 4
1772 - 1823
HPI: 83.23
Rank: 5
1842 - 1924
HPI: 78.59
Rank: 6
1671 - 1729
HPI: 77.02
Rank: 7
1623 - 1687
HPI: 75.21
Rank: 8
1910 - 2013
HPI: 74.65
Rank: 9
1904 - 1989
HPI: 73.29
Rank: 10
1894 - 1976
HPI: 72.86
Rank: 11
1835 - 1882
HPI: 72.07
Rank: 12