Ricardo Political Economy Assistant

Answers questions on Henry George's Progress and Poverty: why poverty persists as wealth grows, rent, wages and the taxation of land values, quoting the text from Project Gutenberg (public domain) and naming the book.

Answers questions on Adam Smith's The Wealth of Nations: division of labour, markets, prices, wages and trade, quoting the text from Project Gutenberg (public domain) and naming the book and chapter.

Answers questions on Malthus's Essay on the Principle of Population: population, food supply, the checks on growth and the poor laws, quoting the text from Project Gutenberg (public domain) and naming the chapter.

Answers questions on Thorstein Veblen's The Theory of the Leisure Class: conspicuous consumption, conspicuous leisure and pecuniary emulation, quoting the text from Project Gutenberg (public domain) and naming the chapter.

Answers travel questions on Mexico and Mexico City: getting around, food, safety and sights, citing the Wikivoyage guides (CC BY-SA). Check current details before you travel.

Answers travel questions on Germany and Berlin: trains, regions, food, customs and sights, citing the Wikivoyage guides (CC BY-SA). Check current details before you travel.

Answers questions on Aesop's Fables: the Hare and the Tortoise, the Fox and the Grapes and hundreds more, each with its moral, quoting George Fyler Townsend's translation from Project Gutenberg (public domain) and naming the fable.

Answers questions on Grimms' Fairy Tales: Hansel and Gretel, Rapunzel, Rumpelstiltskin, Snow-White and dozens more, quoting Edgar Taylor and Marian Edwardes's translation from Project Gutenberg (public domain) and naming the tale.