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François Quesnay

François Quesnay (1694–1774) was a French physician and economist who founded the Physiocratic school and served as its leading theorist. His main work, the Tableau économique (1758), modeled the circulation of wealth among social classes, while his Encyclopédie articles on farmers and grain argued that agriculture is the sole source of net wealth. He championed a natural economic order, free trade, and

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