Henri de Saint-Simon

Henri de Saint-Simon

Claude Henri de Rouvroy, comte de Saint-Simon, often referred to as Henri de Saint-Simon (French: [ɑ̃ʁi də sɛ̃ simɔ̃]; 17 October 1760 – 19 May 1825), was a French political, economic and socialist theorist and businessman whose thought had a substantial influence on politics, economics, sociology and the philosophy of science. He is a younger relative of the famous memoirist the Duc de Saint-Simon. Saint-Simon created a political and economic ideology known as Saint-Simonianism that claimed that the needs of an industrial class, which he also referred to as the working class, needed to be recognized and fulfilled to have an effective society and an efficient economy. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Henri de Saint-Simon has received more than 377,758 page views. His biography is available in 53 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 52 in 2019). Henri de Saint-Simon is the 126th most popular philosopher (up from 128th in 2019), the 245th most popular biography from France (up from 248th in 2019) and the 13th most popular French Philosopher.

Henri de Saint-Simon is most famous for his ideas of technocracy, where the economy would be controlled by a select group of scientists and engineers.