RICARDO, David.

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On Protection to Agriculture. First edition of Ricardo's proposals for agricultural reform, written during the Easter recess of 1822 shortly before the debate on the Report of the Agricultural Committee. Ricardo was a member of the select committee appointed in 1821 to consider the depressed state of agriculture.According to McCulloch, "This is the best of Mr. Ricardo's tracts, and is, indeed, a chef-d'oeuvre. The important questions respecting remunerating price, the influence of a low and of a high value of corn on wages and profits, the effects of taxation on agriculture and manufactures, the grounds on which restrictions on importation may be justified, with others of equal interest and difficulty, are all discussed in the short compass of 87 pages with a depth, precision, and clearness that have never been surpassed. Had Mr. Ricardo never written anything else, this pamphlet would have placed him in the very first rank of political economists" (p.78).

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