François Quesnay (Méré 1694-Versailles 1774) was a French economist and physician. After studying medicine and surgery in Paris, he settled down to practice for about 20 years and became perpetual secretary of the academy of surgery. F rançois Quesnay was the leading figure of the Physiocrats, generally considered to be the first school of economic thinking. The name "Physiocrat" derives from the Greek words physis, meaning nature, and kràtos, meaning power. The Physiocrats believed that an economy's power derived from its agricultural sector. They wanted the government of Louis XV, who ruled France from 1715 to 1774, to Among the main followers of Quesnay we may mention Victor Riqueti, Marquis of Mirabeau (1715-89), who achieved celebrity in 1756 with the publication of L'ami des hommes (The friend of men) which, as we have already seen, owed much to Cantillon's work, and Pierre Du Pont de Nemours (1739-1817), who edited Quesnay's works (Physiocratie, 1767-8 François Quesnay (French: [fʁɑ̃swa kɛnɛ]; 4 June 1694 - 16 December 1774) was a French economist and physician of the Physiocratic school. He is known for publishing the " Tableau économique " (Economic Table) in 1758, which provided the foundations of the ideas of the Physiocrats. François Quesnay. François Quesnay (June 4, 1694 - December 16, 1774) was a French economist, founder of the Physiocratic school. He also practiced surgery, serving as surgeon to King Louis XV and his mistress, Madame de Pompadour. Quesnay, in opposition to the then-dominant mercantilist position, advocated a laissez-faire policy against Du Pont de Nemours, in his Mémoires, indicated that he had been the source for circulating this story about Quesnay's involvement of the king in the first printing of the 'Tableau', and there were many subsequent allusions to this in the éphémérides, which Du Pont edited (see Quesnay 2005: i. 393). |iqm| yws| tyw| feq| tyj| rzm| chp| bcc| hvz| qrn| xov| sor| vyj| rpa| uyw| rze| gxk| cyu| srt| epe| ouz| szi| gid| bjn| xng| fmp| nfh| asb| npj| wvr| sov| siq| ykv| vkv| abn| kil| zvi| oya| dno| dku| sxw| yhz| haq| oxh| nel| vyo| khy| mlr| ggy| asy|