Political Economy 1815 (Reprints of Economic Classics)

In his summary presentation of classical economics--"my first sketch of my system of Political Economy, on the abuse of labor, of competition, and on the excess of production"--Sismondi expounded an early version of his theory of aggregate income distribution. It was originally composed in English in 1815 for the Edinburgh Encyclopedia; the present text has been reset from the American edition published in Philadelphia in 1828. "The essentials of [Nouveaux Principes] had actually been written by 1815." J.A. Schumpeter History of Economic Analysis. "An important primary source for any economics library." Choice