I hope you have seen the Ricardos while they have been in the country. I have not seen or
heard of his work on Political
Economy except from you. I will ask Malthus about it, but am afraid it will be too metaphysical for my taste.1
Thomas Robert Malthus (1766-1834)
English political economist educated at Jesus College, Cambridge; he was author of An Essay on the Principles of Population (1798; 1803).
David Ricardo (1772-1823)
English political economist, the author of Principles of Political Economy and Taxation
(1817); he was a Whig MP for Portarlington (1819-23).