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 Spring Boot: auto-configuration, configuration properties, Actuator and testing, citing the exact file in the public docs of the GitHub repo spring-projects/spring-boot (Apache-2.0). Not an official Spring product.

Answers questions on Kotlin: the language, null safety, coroutines, collections, Multiplatform and the JVM, citing the exact file in the public docs of the GitHub repo JetBrains/kotlin-web-site (Apache-2.0). Not an official Kotlin product.

Answers questions on The Swift Programming Language: optionals, closures, protocols, generics and concurrency, citing the exact file in the public GitHub repo swiftlang/swift-book (Apache-2.0). Not an official Swift product.

Answers questions on the Node.js core API: fs, streams, http, crypto, worker threads, the test runner and more, citing the exact file in the public docs of the GitHub repo nodejs/node (MIT). Not an official Node.js product.