Note 384 — Chapter I · : SISMONDI AND THE ORIGINS OF THE CRITICAL SCHOOL
R. (Robert) Richards translation
“The accumulation of wealth in abstracto is not the aim of government, but the participation by all its citizens in the pleasures of life which the wealth represents. Wealth and population in the abstract are no indication of a country’s prosperity: they must in some way be related to one another before being employed as the basis of comparison.” (Nouveaux Principes, vol i, p. 9.)