Political Economy and Industrialism

Banks in Saint-Simonian Economic Thought

Gilles Jacoud

• Publisher: Routledge
• Year: 2010
• Print ISBN: 9780415482660
• eBook ISBN: 9781136993053
• Topic: Business
• Subtopic: Business General
• Index: Business

The French philosopher and economist Saint-Simon (1760–1825) propounded a new political, economic and social order in which the quest for economic efficiency and social justice led to putting the workers at the forefront. On his death, his disciples worked to preserve his thought and developed it in numerous writings.

This book explains why the Saint-Simonians could not be content with the existing economic and social order and how they planned to organise society and the role banks were to play in it. It contains a selection of old texts, written by the main Saint-Simonian thinkers, published in the press in French between 1826 and 1831, which show the Saint-Simonian conception of the organisation of society and the place allotted to banks.

It is an indispensable reference work in understanding a current of thought which greatly contributed to the industrial expansion of the nineteenth century. This book will be of interest to postgraduate students, economists, historians and philosophers interested in the history of economic thought.

Table of contents

• Political Economy and Industrialism
• Routledge studies in the history of economics
• Contents
• Contributors
• Preface
• Acknowledgements
• 1 Introduction
• 2 On discount banks (first article)1
• 3 On discount banks (second article)1
• 4 Seventh session. Constitution of property—Organisation of banks1
• 5 Fourth letter to the editor of Le Globe, on our legislation considered in its relations with industry and property1
• 6 Political economy (1). The idle and the workers1
• 7 Political economy. The idle and the workers1
• 8 The idle and the workers1
• 9 Political economy. The idle and the workers (third article) (1)1
• 10 Political economy (fifth article) (1)1
• 11 Political economy (sixth article) (1)1
• 12 Political economy (seventh article) (1)1
• 13 Saint-Simonian policy (eighth article) (1)1
• 14 Saint-Simonian policy1 (continuing eighth article)
• 15 Tenth letter to the editor of Le Globe, on legislation in its relations with industry and property1
• 16 Industry. Third lesson given in the Athénée hall by J.Pereire, member of the second degree, on 14 September last (1)1
• 17 Industry. Fourth lesson given in the Athénée hall by J.Pereire, member of the second degree, on 21 September last1
• 18 Industry. Continuing the fourth lesson given in the Athénée hall by J.Pereire, member of the second degree, on 21 September last1
• 19 On industry (second article) (1)1
• 20 Chronological table
• 21 Biographical notices
• Index