- Physiocrat by Webster's
... n.) One of the followers of Quesnay of France, who, in the 18th century, founded a system of political economy based upon the supremacy of natural order.
- François Quesnay by Great Soviet Encyclopedia
Born June 4, 1694, in Mérey, near Paris; died Dec. 16, 1774, in Versailles. French economist, founder of the Physiocratic School.In 1718, Quesnay passed the examination for the title of physician, and in 1744 he received the doctor of medicine degree and became court physician to Louis XV. He began working on economic problems at age 60. According to Marx the ...
- Quesnay, François by Great Soviet Encyclopedia
Born June 4, 1694, in Mérey, near Paris; died Dec. 16, 1774, in Versailles. French economist, founder of the Physiocratic School.In 1718, Quesnay passed the examination for the title of physician, and in 1744 he received the doctor of medicine degree and became court physician to Louis XV. He began working on economic problems at age 60. According to Marx the ...
- Mirabeau, Victor Riqueti, Marquis de by Great Soviet Encyclopedia
... Mirabeau failed to grasp the bourgeois essence of Quesnay’s economic doctrine, which concealed itself beneath an outward appearance of feudalism. “This semblance deceived Dr. Quesnay’s adherents among the nobility, such as the crotchety and patriarchal Mirabeau the Elder,” wrote Marx (K. Marx and F. Engels, Soch. , 2nd ed., vol. 26, pt. 1, p. 21).
- Du Pont de Nemours, Pierre Samuel by Great Soviet Encyclopedia
... the physiocratic ideas of F. Quesnay and R. J. Turgot. In 1767 he published On the Rise and Development of the New Science., in which he gave a very complete and systematic exposition of the teachings of the physiocrats. In 1767 he became editor of the physiocratic journal Ephémérides du citoyen. He published the works of Quesnay in two volumes (1767-68) and of ...