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Dornbusch, Fisher, and Samuelson
The economist’s surname is Stanley Fischer, not “Fisher.” The continuum-of-goods Ricardian paper is by Dornbusch, Fischer, and Samuelson.
Full reasoning
This is a name error. The classic paper on a Ricardian model with a continuum of goods lists the authors as Rudiger Dornbusch, Stanley Fischer, and Paul A. Samuelson. RePEc’s record for the 1977 American Economic Review article "Comparative Advantage, Trade, and Payments in a Ricardian Model with a Continuum of Goods" gives the author list as "Dornbusch, Rudiger; Fischer, Stanley; Samuelson, Paul A." RePEc’s author profile for Stanley Fischer likewise lists that same paper under Fischer, Stanley. So the post’s visible text should say Fischer, not Fisher.
2 sources
- Comparative Advantage, Trade, and Payments in a Ricardian Model with a Continuum of Goods
Author Listed: Dornbusch, Rudiger; Fischer, Stanley; Samuelson, Paul A.
- RePEc: Stanley Fischer
Comparative Advantage, Trade, and Payments in a Ricardian Model with a Continuum of Goods ... by Dornbusch, Rudiger & Fischer, Stanley & Samuelson, Paul A
Writing two decades after Smith in 1808,
This date comparison is off by more than a decade: 1808 is 32 years after 1776, not “two decades” later.
Full reasoning
Adam Smith’s The Wealth of Nations was first published in 1776. Robert Torrens’s The Economists Refuted was published in 1808. The interval between those dates is 32 years, so describing Torrens in 1808 as writing “two decades after Smith” is incorrect. It would be more accurate to say he wrote just over three decades after Smith.
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- The Wealth of Nations | Britannica
The Wealth of Nations ... first published in 1776.
- Book Reviews | Contributions to Political Economy | Oxford Academic
TORRENS ... The Economists Refuted (1808) and Other Early Economic Writings.
- Date arithmetic based on the publication years in the cited sources
1776 to 1808 is 32 years.