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Quesnay

[ ke-ne ]

noun

  1. ·çǾ [f, r, ah, n, -, swa], 1694–1774, French economist and physician.


Quesnay

/ ɛɛ /

noun

  1. QuesnayçǾ16941774MFrenchPOLITICS: political economistWRITING: encyclopedistMEDICINE: physician çǾ (frɑ̃swa). 1694–1774, French political economist, encyclopedist, and physician. He propounded the theory championed by the physiocrats in his Tableau économique (1758)
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“Protest” could only be irrational, because it would challenge the “natural order of things,” to paraphrase 17th century French economist çǾ Quesnay.

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The reaction which attained its height in the Malthusians proper, set in with the Physiocrates and Steuart: Quesnay, Maximes générales, No. 26; Mirabeau, Phil. rurale, ch.

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Quesnay declares it to be impossible that the exports of a country should be permanently greater than its imports: tout achat est vente et toute vente est achat.

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Q. Quesnay, 42, 44, 47, 49, 98, 101, 116, 121, 123, 125, 137, 147, 154, 214, 221, 254.Quételet,

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By produit net, Quesnay means the excess of original production over its cost, considered from the personal point of view of the individual landowner.

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