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Jean Charles Léonard SIMONDE de SISMONDI

Nouveaux principes d'économie politique ou De la richesse dans ses rapports avec la population

Chez Delaunay, à Paris 1827, 12,5x20,5cm, 2 volumes reliés.

Second edition published eight years after the first.

Binders in half calf iced camel, back smooth decorated with gilded nets and cold stamped fillets, golden tail lace, bits of the first flat of the first volume split lengthwise, bits of Volume cracked at the head and tail, three missing caps except the tail of the second volume, missing in the upper right corner of the title piece of the second volume, paper boards zebra in the tank, all corners bumped. Contreplats guards and mottled brown paper to the tank, some spots without gravity.

Political essayist and Swiss economist, Jean Charles Leonard Sismondi Simonde (1773-1842) marks the economic thinking of the early eighteenth ^century by publishing the New Principles of Political Economy: with this text, he advocates a necessary redistribution of wealth among all the layers of the population. Previously close to liberal theories, it is definitively off considering that economic liberalism, particularly by encouraging competition leads to lower production costs and incidental wages for workers. Faced with criticism raised by his views, Sismondi offers a second edition of his text and indicate in the notice have not been amazed at the reception of his book "I surprised myself the point of not having made an impression deeper [...] I was attacking orthodoxy, finally, dangerous business philosophy as in religion. " But after the success of his theories in the years after the first edition, it engages in this new edition to defend again "science that is responsible for ensuring the happiness of mankind."

reference text for criticism of economic liberalism.

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