Abstract

During recent decades, David Ricardo’s ideas on international trade have been submitted to new scrutiny. This research has led to a new understanding of the so-called ‘principle of comparative advantage’ and shown that the alleged ‘Ricardian’ model of foreign trade is based on a misunderstanding of Ricardo’s text. The present paper focuses on the role of James Mill in the creation of the Ricardian vulgate. It shows how the evolution of Mill’s thought, in part due to a didactic perspective and some difficulties raised by his numerical examples, distorted Ricardo’s approach. In Mill we find all the ingredients of what is called the ‘Ricardian’ model of foreign trade, substituting an ex-ante perspective for Ricardo’s ex-post approach.

摘要

近几十年来，大卫·李嘉图的国际贸易理念受到了新的审视。这项研究使人们对所谓的“比较优势原理”有了新的理解，并表明所谓的“李嘉图”外贸模式是基于对李嘉图文本的误解。本文重点关注詹姆斯·米尔在李嘉图普通话创作中的作用。它显示了密尔思想的演变，部分是由于他的教学观点和他的数值例子提出的一些困难，如何扭曲了李嘉图的方法。在穆勒，我们发现了所谓的“李嘉图”外贸模式的所有要素，用事前视角代替了李嘉图的事后方法。