Political Economy and the Philosophy of Government

This collection of selections from Sismondi's works includes extracts from an unpublished memoir and his private journals and letters. The economic essays include "Introduction to Inquiries into Political Economy," "On Landed Property," "On the Condition of the Work People in Manufactories," and "On the National Income." The remaining essays cover such political subjects as colonies, universal suffrage, the executive power in free nations, and constitutional monarchy.