Jean Charles Leonard Simond de SISMONDI (1773-1842) - Swiss economist and historian, one of the founders of petty-bourgeois political economy. The book "New Beginnings of Political Economy" is Sismondi's main contribution to economic science, making him an economist with European fame. In it, Sismondi stated that production is not an end in itself, that national wealth, in fact, is not wealth, since the vast majority of the population gets pitiful crumbs from it. The path of large industry is disastrous for humanity. Sismondi insisted that political economy see behind its abstract schemes a living person.