React to the topic by summarizing a significant chapter and/or readings and an application of that chapter material to the subject.
David Ricardo was worried that the corn laws (high taxes on imported grain) would seriously hamper the advancement of manufacturing since it would lessen benefits earned by the industrialists. Clarify deliberately the progressions in his investigation. At that point talk about how his thinking may or won't not have any significant bearing to today's level headed discussions over globalization, obstructions to free trade, profitability, and productivity gains.