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Jean Charles Léonard de Sismondi

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Jean Charles Simonde de Sismondi
Born9 May 1773
Geneva, Republic of Geneva
Died25 June 1842
Chêne-Bougeries, Swiss Confederation


Jean Charles Léonard Simonde de Sismondi (9 May 1773 – 25 June 1842) was a Swiss political economist. He criticized capitalism from a petty-bourgeois perspective and promoted the small-scale property of the peasantry. He thought that accumulation of capital was only possible with petty-bourgeois production and foreign markets and incorrectly believed that the market would shrink as capitalism grew.[1]

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  1. Political Economy: 'Economic Doctrines of the Capitalist Epoch; Petty-bourgeois Political Economy' (1954). [MIA]