Anne Robert Jacques Turgot

Anne Robert Jacques Turgot
Portrait by François-Hubert Drouais, c. 1775
First Minister of State
In office
24 August 1774 – 12 May 1776
MonarchLouis XVI
Preceded byRené Nicolas de Maupeou
Succeeded byThe Count of Maurepas
Controller-General of Finances
In office
24 August 1774 – 12 May 1776
MonarchLouis XVI
Preceded byJoseph Marie Terray
Succeeded byBaron de Nuits
Secretaries of State for the Navy
In office
20 July 1774 – 24 August 1774
MonarchLouis XVI
Preceded byMarquis de Boynes
Succeeded byAntoine de Sartine
Personal details
Born(1727-05-10)10 May 1727
Paris, France
Died18 March 1781(1781-03-18) (aged 53)
Paris, France
influencedCondorcet · Maistre · Rothbard · Schumpeter · Smith · Marx · Keynes
Signature
Academic career
FieldPolitical economics
School or
tradition
Physiocrats
Alma materSorbonne
InfluencesMontesquieu · Quesnay
Arms of Baron Turgot: Ermine fretty of ten pieces gules, nailed or[1]

Anne Robert Jacques Turgot, Baron de l'Aulne[a] (/tʊərˈɡ/ toor-GOH; French: [tyʁgo]; 10 May 1727 – 18 March 1781), commonly known as Turgot, was a French economist and statesman. Sometimes considered a physiocrat,[2] he is today best remembered as an early advocate for economic liberalism.[3] He is thought to have been the first political economist to have postulated something like the law of diminishing marginal returns in agriculture.[4]

  1. ^ Bulletin de la Société d'émulation du Bourbonnais (in French). Moulins: Société d'émulation du Bourbonnais. 1920. p. 291. Retrieved 16 September 2017. d'hermine, treillissé de gueules de dix pièces turgot.
  2. ^ Vardi, Lianne (2012). The Physiocrats and the World of the Enlightenment. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. pp. 1–2. ISBN 9781107021198. Archived from the original on 3 June 2021. Retrieved 5 March 2020. William Doyle uses physiocracy to explain the freeing of the grain trade and treats Turgot as a physiocrat. [...] Jessica Riskin does the same [...]
  3. ^ Vardi, Lianne (2012). The Physiocrats and the World of the Enlightenment. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. pp. 9–10. ISBN 9781107021198. Archived from the original on 3 June 2021. Retrieved 15 October 2020.
  4. ^ "Anne-Robert-Jacques Turgot (1727–1781)", The Concise Encyclopedia of Economics, Library of Economics and Liberty (2nd ed.), Liberty Fund, 2008, archived from the original on 2 December 2019, retrieved 16 July 2013


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