Led by the philosophers Quesney (kuh-NAY) and Turgot (tur-GO), this group of thinkers were particularly influential in the late ancièn regime of France. Asserting that agricul
Led by the philosophers Quesney (kuh-NAY) and Turgot (tur-GO), this group of thinkers were particularly influential in the late ancièn regime of France. Asserting that agriculture was the only truly productive sector of the economy, they challenged the mercantilist ideals that had dominated the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. FTP name this pre-modern school of economic thought from the Greek for "rule of nature."
Led by the philosophers Quesney (kuh-NAY) and Turgot (tur-GO), this group of thinkers were particularly influential in the late ancièn regime of France.
{Physiocrats}