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It leaves out Hume (apart from a number of indirect references to Hume-type mechanisms) a hundred and ten A reaction TO PROFESSOR O’BRIEN putting Adam Smith on the vanguard of pre-Ricardian financial concept (where he definitely doesn't belong) and significantly overrating Ricardo’s personal value as a financial theorist vis-à-vis Thornton and others. (O’Brien 1981, 370) This amazes me. The reader who had no longer tested my ebook and the references there given (EDR,105–6) will be excused for concluding that the next statements via Ricardo are figments of my fruitful mind's eye: it's been shewn incontrovertibly via that capable author, Dr. Adam Smith, that the speed of curiosity for funds is regulated through the speed of gains on that a part of capital merely which doesn't encompass circulating medium, and that these earnings aren't regulated yet are utterly self reliant of the better or lesser volume of cash that may be hired for the needs of stream; that the rise of circulating medium increases the costs of all commodities, yet won't decrease the speed of curiosity. (Ricardo 1951, III, 25–6) If Sir John [Sinclair] will take the difficulty to refer to the 4th chap. second e-book, of Dr. A. Smith’s celebrated paintings, he'll there see it undeniably established, that the speed of curiosity for cash is completely autonomous of the nominal volume of the circulating medium. it truly is regulated exclusively by way of the contest of capital, no longer along with cash. (Ricardo 1951, III, 143) within the 4th bankruptcy of the second booklet of the Wealth of countries, to which I, in my final letter referred, it really is verified that the speed of curiosity is determined by the speed of earnings, which back is completely self reliant of the nominal quantity of the circulating medium. (Ricardo 1951, III, one hundred fifty) If after the capable exposition of Dr. Smith any longer argument have been essential to turn out that the speed of curiosity is ruled utterly via the relation of the quantity of capital with the technique of using it, and is fullyyt self sufficient of the abundance or shortage of the circulating medium, this representation, may, i believe find the money for it. (Ricardo 1951, III, 194) All of this from the letters to the Morning Chronicle and the answer to Bosanquet. there's no point out of Hume. it really is incontrovertible that Ricardo had prior to him the textual content of the Wealth of countries. That Hume may perhaps certainly were the resource for Smith is a really beside the point subject for the aim handy in my dialogue which used to be to set up the identification of place among Ricardo and Smith on the early interval in query. 111 RICARDO - the recent VIEW allow me upload that during the excessive expense of Bullion (Ricardo 1951, III, 88f) additionally there are large verbatim quotations from the Wealth of countries to the influence that ‘the interest rate isn't regulated by way of the abundance or shortage of cash, yet via the abundance or shortage of that a part of capital no longer including cash’ in simple terms via the short assertion that ‘Mr Hume has supported a similar opinion’. i don't imagine i've got distorted the checklist.