David Ricardo slate plaque

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# 30 Gordon Street, London Standing before this elegant Victorian building in Bloomsbury, you're at the birthplace of academic economics in Britain—though Ricardo himself never walked these halls. The plaque honors the intellectual legacy David Ricardo left behind: his revolutionary theories on tra...

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30 Gordon Street

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To honour the memory of David Ricardo, 1772 - 1823 UCL Department of Economics, founded 1828. Unveiled during the Econometric Society World Congress 2005