“But while Ricardo, the economist, walked like a god (although he was a modest and retiring person), Malthus was relegated to a lower status.”

—  Robert L. Heilbroner , book The Worldly Philosophers

Source: The Worldly Philosophers (1953), Chapter IV, Parson Malthus and David Ricardo, p. 77

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