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      • J.-C.-L. Simonde de Sismondi (born May 9, 1773, Geneva, Switzerland—died June 25, 1842, Chêne, near Geneva) was a Swiss economist and historian who warned against the perils of unchecked industrialism.
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  3. May 10, 2024 · Robert Owen (born May 14, 1771, Newtown, Montgomeryshire, Wales—died November 17, 1858, Newtown) was a Welsh manufacturer turned reformer, one of the most influential early 19th-century advocates of utopian socialism.

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  5. May 15, 2024 · Henri de Saint-Simon was a French social theorist and one of the chief founders of Christian socialism. In his major work, Nouveau Christianisme (1825), he proclaimed a brotherhood of man that must accompany the scientific organization of industry and society.

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