On the Principles of Political Economy, and Taxationwriting · 1817DirectVerified quotation — claim 01“It would therefore be advantageous for her to export wine in exchange for cloth. This exchange might even take place, notwithstanding that the commodity imported by Portugal could be produced there with less labour than in England. Though she could make the cloth with the labour of ninety men, she would import it from a country where it required the labour of 100 men to produce it, because it would be advantageous to her rather to employ her capital in the production of wine, for which she would obtain more cloth from England” — David Ricardo
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Letters of David Ricardo to Thomas Robert Malthus, 1810–1823 (ed. James Bonar)letter · written 1810–1823; published 1887DirectNo passage is mapped to this claim. Sources are listed for provenance; a quotation appears only when it has been verified for the specific claim.