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Anne Robert Jacques Turgot

1727 - 1781

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

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Anne Robert Jacques Turgot is the 32nd most popular economist (down from 25th in 2019), the 540th most popular biography from France (down from 498th in 2019) and the 5th most popular French Economist.

Anne Robert Jacques Turgot was a French economist and statesman. He is most famous for his work in reforming the French economy.

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Among ECONOMISTS

Among economists, Anne Robert Jacques Turgot ranks 32 out of 414. Before him are Alexander Hamilton, Jean-Baptiste Say, Joseph Stiglitz, Amartya Sen, Gunnar Myrdal, and Henri Fayol. After him are Elinor Ostrom, Charles Cooley, Maurice Allais, Eugen Böhm von Bawerk, Simon Kuznets, and Carl Menger.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1727, Anne Robert Jacques Turgot ranks 2. Before him is Louise Élisabeth of France. After him are Thomas Gainsborough, Maximilian III Joseph, Elector of Bavaria, Jean-Georges Noverre, Nikolaus Joseph von Jacquin, Empress Xiaoyichun, Henriette of France, Michel Adanson, Prince Karl Anton August of Schleswig-Holstein-Sonderburg-Beck, Giovanni Domenico Tiepolo, and Ercole III d'Este, Duke of Modena. Among people deceased in 1781, Anne Robert Jacques Turgot ranks 2. Before him is Gotthold Ephraim Lessing. After him are Túpac Amaru II, Mariana Victoria of Spain, Josef Mysliveček, Abram Petrovich Gannibal, Ablai Khan, Franz Joseph I, Prince of Liechtenstein, Johann Anton Güldenstädt, Faustina Bordoni, Jean-Frédéric Phélypeaux, Count of Maurepas, and John Needham.

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In France

Among people born in France, Anne Robert Jacques Turgot ranks 540 out of 6,770. Before him are Lucien Bonaparte (1775), William II of England (1056), Emma of Normandy (985), Hippolyte Fizeau (1819), Joseph Joffre (1852), and Augustin-Jean Fresnel (1788). After him are Louis Aragon (1897), Jean Lannes (1769), John Vianney (1786), André Frédéric Cournand (1895), Jacques Monod (1910), and Allan Kardec (1804).

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Among ECONOMISTS In France

Among economists born in France, Anne Robert Jacques Turgot ranks 5. Before him are Frédéric Passy (1822), Vilfredo Pareto (1848), François Quesnay (1694), and Jean-Baptiste Say (1767). After him are Maurice Allais (1911), Léon Walras (1834), Jacques Delors (1925), Dominique Strauss-Kahn (1949), Frédéric Bastiat (1801), Gérard Debreu (1921), and Jean-Claude Trichet (1942).

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