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'''François Quesnay''' (June 4, 1694 – December 16, 1774) was a French economist of the Physiocratic school. He is known for publishing the "Tableau économique" (Economic Table) in 1758 , which provided the foundations of the ideas of the [[Physiocrats]]. This was perhaps the first work to attempt to describe the workings of the economy in an analytical way, and as such can be viewed as one of the first important contributions to economic thought. They wanted the government of [[Wikipedia:Louis XV of France|Louis XV]] to deregulate and reduce taxes on French agriculture so that poor France could emulate wealthier Britain, which had a relatively laissez-faire policy. Indeed, it is said it was Quesnay who coined the term "laissez-faire, laissez-passer". His great pupil was [[Anne Robert Jacques Turgot|Turgot]].

==Bibliography==
* {{cite encyclopedia
|editor-last=Henderson|editor-first=David R.|editor-link=
|title=François Quesnay (1694-1774)
|url=http://www.econlib.org/library/Enc/bios/Quesnay.html
|encyclopedia=The Concise Encyclopedia of Economics
|year=2007
|publisher=Liberty Fund
|location=Indianapolis, Indiana
|isbn=978-0-86597-665-8
|pages=
}}
* {{Cite book
|last=Quesnay|first=Francois|authorlink=Francois Quesnay
|title=Œuvres économiques complètes et autres textes
|publisher=Éditions de l’Institut national d’études démographiques
|place=Paris
|year=2005
|isbn=2-7332-1031-9
}}

==Links==
* [[Wikipedia:François Quesnay|François Quesnay]] in Wikipedia

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