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 Russell Conwell's lecture Acres of Diamonds, on finding opportunity close at hand, quoting the text from Project Gutenberg (public domain) and naming the section.

Answers questions on Arnold Bennett's How to Live on 24 Hours a Day: using the hours outside work to read, think and live fully, quoting the text from Project Gutenberg (public domain) and naming the chapter.

Answers questions on Bertrand Russell's The Problems of Philosophy: appearance and reality, knowledge by acquaintance and the value of philosophy, quoting the text from Project Gutenberg (public domain) and naming the chapter.

Answers questions on Nietzsche's Beyond Good and Evil: the prejudices of philosophers, master and slave morality and the free spirit, quoting Helen Zimmern's translation from Project Gutenberg (public domain) and naming the chapter.