Principles of Political Economy and Taxation (Classics)

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Mr. Davies one-star review almost scared me away, but I took a chance on this anyway. I'm happy to say that this free Kindle edition, ASIN: B004TPGM3G, now has no problems. I've seen no scanning errors and it has a linked table of contents, linked footnotes, and linked index. It would be hard to find a more flawless eBook.

The only complaint I can make is that the table of contents does not show up on the Kindle "Go To" page. I've found this to be a common problem. Nevertheless, the TOC is there and can be bookmarked for reference if you need to return to it frequently.

(BTW, I thank Davies for his negative review. It was probably his review that prompted the publisher to clean this edition up.)

Ricardo's classic work is essential reading for all economists. Unfortunately, this is not the edition they should use. The rubbish begins on the so-called "cover", most of which is covered by the background words "image not available" and half the title, with the rest missing, at the bottom of the page. The title page starts with jumbled characters: [ Cn?H.Ajn/K300151240GJFON THE PRINCIPLES... The contents page is, unsurprisingly, totally without any linkages to the chapters. Nonsense characters are randomly scattered throughout the text, along with irrational line breaks in the middle of a sentence and the middle of a line. A typical line:
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David Ricardo was an English economist who simplified and refined Adam Smith's theory of working capitalism outlined in "Wealth of Nations." The present book, "Principles of Political Economy and Taxation" written in 1817 was Ricardo's most important work. Ricardo strips away all of Adam Smith's assumptions that the owners of the means of production in society had any inherent right to profit from the labor of the working masses. Indeed, Ricardo laid out the conflict in modern capitalist society as clearly as anyone before or since his time. For Ricardo, the struggle in society was very plain. Capitalists made money off the surplus value created by workers, plain and simple. Therefore, capitalists needed to take as much of the surplus value as they possibly could with out any need for philosophical shilly-shallying. Capitalists need to recognise that their interests conflicted directly with the workers before it was too late. To increase profits...Read more