No. 60 (2024)
Artículos

Fixed Capital and Unemployment in David Ricardo

Said Azpeitia Blanco
Universidad Politécnica de Francisco I. Madero
Published October 3, 2024

Abstract

This paper analyzes the evolution of Ricardo's thought about the effect of machinery on the working class from his original texts and applying an analytical method that treats fixed capital as a joint product, a method that is implicit in the examples of Ricardo.