Anne Robert Jacques Turgot | |
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 Portrait by François-Hubert Drouais, c. 1775 | |
| First Minister of State | |
| In office 24 August 1774 – 12 May 1776 | |
| Monarch | Louis XVI |
| Preceded by | René Nicolas de Maupeou |
| Succeeded by | The Count of Maurepas |
| Controller-General of Finances | |
| In office 24 August 1774 – 12 May 1776 | |
| Monarch | Louis XVI |
| Preceded by | Joseph Marie Terray |
| Succeeded by | Baron de Nuits |
| Secretaries of State for the Navy | |
| In office 20 July 1774 – 24 August 1774 | |
| Monarch | Louis XVI |
| Preceded by | Marquis de Boynes |
| Succeeded by | Antoine de Sartine |
| Personal details | |
| Born | 10 May 1727 Paris, France |
| Died | 18 March 1781 (aged 53) Paris, France |
| influenced | Condorcet · Maistre · Rothbard · Schumpeter · Smith · Marx · Keynes |
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| Academic career | |
| Field | Political economics |
| School or tradition | Physiocrats |
| Alma mater | Sorbonne |
| Influences | Montesquieu · Quesnay |
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Anne Robert Jacques Turgot, Baron de l'Aulne[a] (/tʊərˈɡoʊ/ 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]
- ^ 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.
- ^ 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 [...]
- ^ 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.
- ^ "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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