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 Jack London's The Call of the Wild: Buck, the Klondike, the law of club and fang, Spitz and John Thornton, quoting the text from Project Gutenberg (public domain) and naming the chapter.

Answers questions on Anna Sewell's Black Beauty: a horse's life, Ginger, Merrylegs, the bearing rein and cab work in London, quoting the text from Project Gutenberg (public domain) and naming the chapter.

Answers questions on Kipling's The Jungle Book: Mowgli, Baloo, Bagheera, Shere Khan, Rikki-Tikki-Tavi and the White Seal, quoting the text from Project Gutenberg (public domain) and naming the story.

Answers questions on Dostoyevsky's Crime and Punishment: Raskolnikov, the murder, Sonia, Porfiry and guilt, quoting Constance Garnett's translation from Project Gutenberg (public domain) and naming the part.