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Michel Chevalier

Michel Chevalier , 1806-79, French economist. An ardent Saint-Simonian as a youth, he later favored a form of welfare capitalism. He advocated industrial development as the key to social progress. Also a proponent of free trade, he negotiated with Richard Cobden the Anglo-French trade treaty of 1860. His Lettres sur l'Amérique du Nord (1836) extols the United States.

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Chevalier, Michel, see Society, Manners, and Politics in the United States.

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Society, Manners, and Politics in the United States

Society, Manners, and Politics in the United States, English translation (1839) of the French work (1834) by Michel Chevalier (1806–79), a young Saint‐Simonian commissioned by the states man Thiers to inspect U.S. public works. His book, the result of a two‐year observation of the social, political, and economic machinery of the Society, Manners, and Politics… U.S., is an acute and impersonal survey of U.S. democracy, industrial conditions, Jacksonian politics, preoccupation with business, influence of the frontier, ending with a speculation on the country's future.

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