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

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.