September 11: 200th anniversary of David Ricardo’s death

Two hundred years ago, on 11 September 1823, the classical economist David Ricardo died. He was greatly much admired by Luigi Einaudi for his skill in the use of deductive logic (''wielding logic as if it were a straight, sharp blade, he aimed it at the heart of the opponent's reasoning'') and for his comprehensible and pleasant prose (“but who, as soon as he has cast his eyes on a page of Ricardo, does not go to the end of the chapter or essay?”).

The library of the Luigi Einaudi Foundation holds the first editions of Ricardo's works, an autograph letter to an anonymous correspondent, which Ricardo wrote on 6 July 1822, before embarking on a journey to the continent, and “the most superb critical edition ever seen of Ricardo's works” edited by his former student Piero Sraffa.