Quesnay

[ ke-ne ]

noun

1. Fran·çois [f, r, ah, n, -, swa], 1694–1774, French economist and physician.

Quesnay

/ kɛnɛ /

noun

1. QuesnayFrançois16941774MFrenchPOLITICS: political economistWRITING: encyclopedistMEDICINE: physician François (frɑ̃swa). 1694–1774, French political economist, encyclopedist, and physician. He propounded the theory championed by the physiocrats in his Tableau économique (1758)

Example Sentences

“Protest” could only be irrational, because it would challenge the “natural order of things,” to paraphrase 17th century French economist François Quesnay.

From Salon

The reaction which attained its height in the Malthusians proper, set in with the Physiocrates and Steuart: Quesnay, Maximes générales, No. 26; Mirabeau, Phil. rurale, ch.

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Quesnay declares it to be impossible that the exports of a country should be permanently greater than its imports: tout achat est vente et toute vente est achat.

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Q. Quesnay, 42, 44, 47, 49, 98, 101, 116, 121, 123, 125, 137, 147, 154, 214, 221, 254.Quételet,

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By produit net, Quesnay means the excess of original production over its cost, considered from the personal point of view of the individual landowner.

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