History of the Fall of the Roman Empire

by Jean Charles Léonard de Sismondi

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This is a history of the collapse of the Ancient Roman Empire in the 5th century, tracing back hundreds of years to the 3rd century to tell the story of how the most famous empire in history collapsed.

Genres: History

556 pages, Kindle Edition

First published November 24, 2013

About the author

Jean Charles Léonard de Sismondi (a.k.a. Jean Charles Leonard Simonde de Sismondi), whose real name was Simonde, was a historian and political economist, who is best known for his works on French and Italian history, and his economic ideas. His Nouveaux principes d'économie politique, ou de la richesse dans ses rapports avec la population represents the first liberal critique of laissez-faire economics. He was one of the pioneering advocates of unemployment insurance, sickness benefits, a progressive tax, regulation of working hours, and a pension scheme. He was also the first to coin the term proletariat to refer to the working class created under capitalism, and his discussion of mieux value anticipates the concept of surplus value. According to Gareth Stedman Jones, "much of what Sismondi wrote became part of the standard repertoire of socialist criticism of modern industry," earning him critical commentary in the Communist Manifesto.