The theory of wages in classical economics: a study of Adam Smith, David Ricardo, and their contemporaries

Labour supply and demand, unemployment, natural wage - some definitions wages in the English economic literature in the late 17th and early 18th century the theory of wages in Adam Smith and in his contemporaries, J. Steuart, A.R.J. Turgot and J. Necker theories of population form Cantillon to Ricardo the theory of wages in David Ricardo wages and the labour market in classical political economy, summary and comparison with other approaches.