Supporters of this movement rallied around the appointment of Jacques Turgot as comptroller general.
Supporters of this movement rallied around the appointment of Jacques Turgot as comptroller general. They believed that prices were determined solely by supply and demand, but that there also existed a constant fair price, bon prix, in a free trade system. Extreme advocates of laissez faire, they attacked mercantilism for its emphasis on trade regulations and manufacturing. Their views were first put forth in 1758's Tableau economique by Francois Quisney. FTP, what was this school of late eighteenth century French economics which believed that land was the source of all wealth?
Supporters of this movement rallied around the appointment of Jacques Turgot as comptroller general.
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