O'conner

[William S. Lear]

On Saturday, May 1, 1999 at 16:38:49 (-0700) michael at ecst.csuchico.edu writes:
>David Hume and Sir James Steuart wrote of superfluous mouths.

Ricardo used the word "redundant":

     ...the  same  cause  which  may  increase  the net revenue of the

     country may at the same time render the population redundant, and

     deteriorate the condition of the labourer.

     ---David Ricardo, *The Principles of Political Economy and

     Taxation* (Chapter 31, "On Machinery")

Bill