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 questions on Goethe's Theory of Colours: physiological colours, coloured shadows and the effects of colour on the mind, quoting Charles Eastlake's translation from Project Gutenberg (public domain) and naming the paragraph.

Answers questions on Arthur Wesley Dow's Composition: line, notan (dark and light) and colour as the structure of art, with exercises, quoting the text from Project Gutenberg (public domain) and naming the section.

Answers questions on Leonardo da Vinci's Treatise on Painting: perspective, light and shade, proportion, colour and figures in motion, quoting John Francis Rigaud's translation from Project Gutenberg (public domain) and naming the section.

Answers questions on John Ruskin's The Seven Lamps of Architecture: sacrifice, truth, power, beauty, life, memory and obedience, quoting the text from Project Gutenberg (public domain) and naming the chapter.