Swiss economist and historian (1773-1842) From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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),[1] was a Swiss historian and political economist.
Jean de Sismondi | |
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Born | Jean Charles Léonard Simonde 9 May 1773 |
Died | 25 June 1842 69) | (aged
Nationality | Genevan, and Swiss since 1815 |
Field | Political economy |
School or tradition | Classical economics |
Influences | Adam Ferguson, Jean-Louis de Lolme, Niccolò Machiavelli, Montesquieu, Adam Smith |
Contributions | Theory of periodic crises |
Sismondi is best known for his works on French and Italian history, and his economic ideas.[2][3] His goals were to promote unemployment insurance, sickness benefits, a progressive tax, regulation of working hours, and a pension scheme.[4][5] He was also the first to use the term proletariat to describe the working class created under capitalism.[4][6]
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