Gilles Jacoud (ed.), Political Economy and Industrialism. Banks in Saint-Simonian Economic Thought

Saint-Simon and the intellectual movement that grew out of his work represent one of the greatest intellectual phenomena in the 19th century European history of ideas. One can assert without any exaggeration that the totality of the revolutionary attitudes that spread throughout the century carried on deep and abiding influences of the Saint-Simonian thought, and particularly the Saint-Simonian conception of history. In a sense, the latter is the source of the modern idea of progress. Politic..