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Article: Physiocrats and Physiocracy
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PHYSIOCRATS AND PHYSIOCRACY
PHYSIOCRATS AND PHYSIOCRACY.
Physiocracy was an economic theory that flourished in France in the second half of the eighteenth century, and an important example of Enlightenment social science. In 1757 Fran
ç
ois Quesnay (1694
–
1774), the chief theorist of Physiocracy, met Victor Riqueti, marquis de Mirabeau (1715
–
1789), initiating a lifelong collaboration. Two years later, Quesnay published his
Tableau
œ
conomique,
a work he and Mirabeau regarded as the foundation of Physiocracy. This was followed by Mirabeau's
Th
é
orie de l'imp
ô
t
in 1760, and the
Philosophie rurale,
the first full exposition of physiocratic thought, in 1763. ...