In his book THE UNDERCOVER ECONOMIST, Tim Harford writes:
"... Ricardo treated the whole agricultural sector as if it were one vast farm with a single landlord. A unified agricultural sector has nothing to gain from improving the land's productivity ... But an individual landlord in competition with others would have plenty of incentive to make improvments." (p. 15) Is this an accurate description of Ricardo's theory? -- Jim Devine / "To initiate a war of aggression, therefore, is not only an international crime; it is the supreme international crime differing only from other war crimes in that it contains within itself the accumulated evil of the whole." -- Nuremberg Tribunal
