Essay on the Distribution of Wealth Author:Richard Jones Jones set out to write a general treatise reconstructing economics on a comparative, historical basis but completed only this first part, an attack on Ricardo's theory of rent which contains an incisive critique of Ricardo's abstract mehtodology. "The first institutionalist critic of Ricardo." M. Blaug Great Economists Before Keynes. "Not ... more »only ... founder of the English historical school ... also ... the founder of the English comparative economy school." The New Palgrave« less