Considerations on the Importation of Foreign Corn (1814) and the Principle of Comparative Advantage

Martin Grančay and Nóra Grančay

History of Economics Review, 2015, vol. 61, issue 1, 69-77

Abstract: The debate on authorship of the principle of comparative advantage has recently been enriched with several new arguments. In what can be considered the most important one of them, Giancarlo De Vivo claimed that a pamphlet called Considerations on the Importation of Foreign Corn published in 1814 by an anonymous author contains the first known formulation of the principle. The present paper tests this claim. It suggests the formulation contained in Considerations is incomplete.

Date: 2015
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DOI: 10.1080/18386318.2015.11681275

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