Sismondi’s Political Economy: Translating Power into Sociability

Francesca Dal Degan
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Francesca Dal Degan: University of Pisa

Chapter 3 in Power in Economic Thought, 2018, pp 51-80 from Palgrave Macmillan

Abstract: Abstract Dal Degan focuses on the concept of sociability—a bridge concept that reveals its nodal nature between moral and anthropological theory, politics and political economy—in order to penetrate Sismondi’s scientific discourse. Pointing out the importance that Sismondi attributed to structural elements such as distribution of property, participative institutions, different systems of production and organization of time, as well as to non-material factors concerning the form of interpersonal relationships, the chapter emphasizes the critical role of Sismondi’s economic analysis and its role in unravelling the oxymoronic nature of modern freedom. The outcome of these inquiries, in thousands of pages, makes up the material of Sismondi’s social science.

Date: 2018
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DOI: 10.1007/978-3-319-94039-7_3

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