ABSTRACT
Some of Jean Charles Leonard Sismondi’s early scientific writings on economics were similar in terms of contents and aims as well as the timeline of composition. Echoing Smith’s position, Sismondi links USA’s wealth with agriculture and the particular position of the landowner. The indications that Sismondi offers to inspire the workings of the State in the economy are, therefore, addressed to the reestablishment of the genesis, dissemination, and development processes of the immanent forces of civil society. The intervention called for by Sismondi must have been inspired by the will to create a series of “social safety valves” to guarantee subsistence to people involved in the dying sector and to re-train them for less-populated industries that had greater demand. In Tuscany, Sismondi was attracted by the world of agriculture, and he studied the different ways farms were run through particular sharecropping.
