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physiocrat
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Etymology
From French physiocrate, corresponding to physio- + -crat.
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Noun
physiocrat (plural physiocrats)
- (economics, now historical) Any of a group of economists in 18th-century France who believed that the government should not seek to influence the operation of natural economic laws. [from 18th c.]
- 2002, Colin Jones, The Greta Nation, Penguin, published 2003, page 219:
- The Physiocrats espoused a professional service ethic and, in the interests of societal welfare, sought to establish laws of political economy and social relations.
- 2019, Leo Damrosch, The Club, Yale, published 2020, page 319:
- Smith spent some time in Paris and got to know the physiocrats personally, notably François Quesnay and Anne-Robert-Jacques Turgot.
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