Political Economy and Industrialism: Banks in Saint-Simonian Economic Thought

This book 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.

Gilles Jacoud is Professor of Economics at the University of Saint-Etienne, France, where he is the Director of the Economics Department. He is the author of several books and articles on money and banking and on the history of economic thought.