The book seeks to analyse Ricardo's works from the year 1920 to the end of the 1930s - during the time of the outbreak of the Second World War, when even the study of classical economics became difficult. The book covers different aspects of his works and contains elements which may be interesting to foreign and even Japanese readers today without necessarily coming under the influence of Marx's reading. It presents Ricardo's work that is at present, wholly unknown to the Ricardo scholars and more generally to the historians of economic thought outside Japan.

Introduction: Ricardo studies in Japan during the interwar period, Susumu Takenaga Chapter 1: Ricardo in the History of Economic Thought, Tokuzo Fukuda Chapter 2: From My Career of Economic Research, Hajime Kawakami Chapter 3: Ricardo as Apogee of the Orthodox Economics, Shinzo Koizumi Chapter 4: Ricardo's Theory of Wages, Tsuneo Hori Chapter 5: Essential Aspects of Ricardo's Theory of Value, Kojiro Mori Chapter 6: Ricardo's Theory of Value and Distribution, Chogoro Maide

Susumu Takenaga is a Professor of Economics at Daito Bunka University, Japan. He had co-edited a book with Yuji Sato, Ricardo on Money and Finance: A bicentenary reappraisal, which was also published by Routledge.