ABSTRACT
This chapter offers a brief chronological reminder not only of Ricardo and Sismondi's direct and indirect relationships, but also provides a short outline of the various contributions of these two authors to the theory of rent and the Corn Laws debate. It concentrates on Sismondi's understanding and critique of Ricardo's theory of rent and its links with their respective price theories. The chapter examines Sismondi's opinion on the 1826 Corn Laws debate. Eventually, strictly within the rent/corn laws question. The chapter recalls the various and sometimes sharp methodological critiques addressed by Sismondi at the economists of the "new school." The usual generalities on the Sismondi-Ricardo debate during the general glut controversy, very little has been written on Sismondi as a more general critic of some of the most cherished components of Ricardo's theoretical model. The Sismondi-Ricardo relationship, it is too often overlooked that though a year younger than Ricardo, Sismondi's first contribution to economics proper predates Ricardo's by nearly a decade.
