Anne Robert Jacques Turgot

ebook The Legacy of Enlightenment, the Birth of Modern Economics · Economic Science

By Fouad Sabry

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Who is Anne Robert Jacques Turgot

Anne Robert Jacques Turgot, Baron de l'Aulne, more usually referred to as Turgot, was a French scholar and politician who specialized in economics. It is primarily as an early champion for economic liberalism that he is regarded today, despite the fact that he was sometimes labeled a physiocrat. It is generally accepted that he was the first economist to recognize the law of diminishing marginal returns in the context of agriculture.

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Chapter 1: Anne Robert Jacques Turgot

Chapter 2: Physiocracy

Chapter 3: François Quesnay

Chapter 4: Pierre Samuel du Pont de Nemours

Chapter 5: Jacques Necker

Chapter 6: Guillaume-Chrétien de Lamoignon de Malesherbes

Chapter 7: Laissez-faire

Chapter 8: Ferdinando Galiani

Chapter 9: Étienne Charles de Loménie de Brienne

Chapter 10: Charles Alexandre de Calonne

Chapter 11: Parlement

Chapter 12: Jean Frédéric Phélypeaux, Count of Maurepas

Chapter 13: Parliament of Paris

Chapter 14: Gabriel Bonnot de Mably

Chapter 15: Jacques Claude Marie Vincent de Gournay

Chapter 16: René Louis de Voyer de Paulmy, Marquis d'Argenson

Chapter 17: Antoine-François Bertrand de Molleville

Chapter 18: Michel Amelot de Gournay

Chapter 19: Pacte de Famine

Chapter 20: Flour War

Chapter 21: Essay on the Nature of Trade in General

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