Lectures romantiques de l’économie, lectures de l’économie romantique ; Balzac et Sismondi

Alexandre Péraud (1) , Patrice Baubeau (2)

1 TELEM - Textes, littératures, écritures et modèles
2 IDHES - Institutions et Dynamiques Historiques de l'Économie et de la Société

Do we have to base the (known) opinions shared by the master of the naturalist novel and the liberal economist-turned-critic of the consequences of progress on a simple manifestation of the Zeitgeist or the expression of a shared sentimentality? This is what the “Romantic” label applied by Lénine to the works of Sismondi encourages us to think. But a common vision of the social appears in the work of Sismondi and Balzac and the same distrust of economic reductionism, revealing their economic model.

Domaines: Sciences de l'Homme et Société; Littératures; Economies et finances

Alexandre Péraud, Patrice Baubeau. Lectures romantiques de l’économie, lectures de l’économie romantique ; Balzac et Sismondi. Romanesques : revue du Cercll : roman & romanesque, 2015, Récit romansque et modèle économique, 7. ⟨halshs-02495110⟩