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Quesnay, François

(1694–1774) a French economist whose writings helped to lay the basis for the physiocratic school of thought (see PHYSIOCRACY). Quesnay suggested that agriculture was the source of wealth, with the productive class (tenant farmers) creating an economic surplus over and above what they need for their own subsistence. This ‘net product’ is then available to meet the needs of landowners and the artisans and merchants. Quesnay wrote Tableau Économique (1758), a work designed to show how the net product is produced and circulates among farmers, landlords and merchants, which was, in effect, an INPUT-OUTPUT table.
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The Economics of Francois Quesnay, Duke University Press, Durham.
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Francois Quesnay (1694 - 1774) is considered to be the founder and leader of physiocracy, though many of his ideas are to be found in the writings of earlier French economists, such as Jean Claude Vincent, sieur de Gournay; Sebastien Vauban; and Pierre de Boisguilbert.
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Turgot explained that "every type of labor, in agriculture, in industry or in commerce, requires advances," and that, consequently, "capitals are the indispensable foundation of all lucrative enterprises."(3) With equal brevity, Francois Quesnay, in his General Maxims, in print perhaps as early as 1758 and thereafter published in numerous, somewhat varied editions, asserted that "it is not so much men as wealth which must be attracted to the countryside." The more wealth is employed in cultivation, the less men are required and the more agriculture prospers and yields revenue.
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