Note 201-5 — Chapter VI

Ricardo, Principles, ch. 4, recognizes the bright side as well as Sismondi, N. P., I, 268, or Buret, De la Misère des Classes laborieuses en Angleterre et en France, 1841, its dark side. Sismondi thinks that land and the capital employed in its cultivation are found to the greatest disadvantage in the hands of the same person. The existence of a thrifty peasant class (also of a class of tradesmen) is one of the best means to prevent the too wide separation of the three branches of income.