Jean de Sismondi

Jean de Sismondi
Jean Charles de Sismondi
Born
Jean Charles Léonard Simonde

(1773-05-09)9 May 1773
Geneva, Republic of Geneva
Died25 June 1842(1842-06-25) (aged 69)
Chêne-Bougeries, Canton of Geneva, Swiss Confederation
NationalityGenevan, and Swiss since 1815
FieldPolitical economy
School or
tradition		Classical economics
InfluencesAdam Ferguson, Jean-Louis de Lolme, Niccolò Machiavelli, Montesquieu, Adam Smith
ContributionsTheory of periodic crises

Jean Charles Léonard de Sismondi (also known as Jean Charles Leonard Simonde de Sismondi) (French: [ʒɑ̃ ʃaʁl leɔnaʁ də sismɔ̃di]; 9 May 1773 – 25 June 1842), was a Swiss historian and political economist.

Works

Sismondi is best known for his works on French and Italian history, and his economic ideas. His goals were to promote unemployment insurance, sickness benefits, a progressive tax, regulation of working hours, and a pension scheme. He was also the first to use the term proletariat to describe the working class created under capitalism.

References

  1. ↑ "Jean Charles Léonard Simonde de Sismondi". Encyclopedia of World Biography. 2004. Retrieved 2016-07-21.
  2. ↑ Stewart, Ross E. (1984). "Sismondi's Forgotten Ethical Critique of Early Capitalism". Journal of Business Ethics. 3 (3): 227–234. doi:10.1007/BF00382924. S2CID 154967384.
  3. ↑ Spiegel, Henry William (1991). The Growth of Economic Thought. Duke University Press. pp. 302–303.
  4. 1 2 Ekins, Paul; Max-Neef, Manfred (2006). Real Life Economics. Routledge. pp. 91–93.
  5. ↑ Murray, Christopher John (2004). Encyclopedia of the Romantic Era, 1760-1850, Volume 2. Taylor & Francis. pp. 1054–1055.
  6. ↑ Ekelund Jr, Robert B.; Hébert, Robert F. (2006). A History of Economic Theory and Method: Fifth Edition. Waveland Press. p. 226.