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François Quesnay

1694 - 1774

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François Quesnay (; French: [fʁɑ̃swa kɛnɛ]; 4 June 1694 – 16 December 1774) was a French economist and physician of the Physiocratic school. He is known for publishing the "Tableau économique" (Economic Table) in 1758, which provided the foundations of the ideas of the Physiocrats. This was perhaps the first work attempting to describe the workings of the economy in an analytical way, and as such can be viewed as one of the first important contributions to economic thought. His Le Despotisme de la Chine, written in 1767, describes Chinese politics and society, and his own political support for enlightened despotism. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. François Quesnay is the 12th most popular economist (up from 13th in 2019), the 297th most popular biography from France (down from 291st in 2019) and the 3rd most popular French Economist.

François Quesnay was a physician, economist, and one of the founders of the Physiocratic school of economics. He is most famous for his Tableau Économique, which was the first economic model to show the circular flow of income and expenditure between the three classes in society: the productive class, the unproductive class, and the government.

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Among ECONOMISTS

Among economists, François Quesnay ranks 12 out of 414Before him are John Stuart Mill, Herbert A. Simon, Friedrich Hayek, Frédéric Passy, Vilfredo Pareto, and Milton Friedman. After him are Joseph Schumpeter, Mario Draghi, George Shultz, Alfred Marshall, John Law, and Ludwig von Mises.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1694, François Quesnay ranks 2Before him is Voltaire. After him are Yeongjo of Joseon, Francis Hutcheson, Louis-Claude Daquin, Georg Brandt, Paul of the Cross, Leonardo Leo, Hermann Samuel Reimarus, Henry Pelham, Count Palatine Joseph Charles of Sulzbach, and Theodore of Corsica. Among people deceased in 1774, François Quesnay ranks 4Before him are Louis XV of France, Pope Clement XIV, and Robert Clive. After him are Charles Marie de La Condamine, Niccolò Jommelli, Countess Caroline of Nassau-Saarbrücken, Countess Palatine Caroline of Zweibrücken, Jacques-François Blondel, Duke Anthony Ulrich of Brunswick, Oliver Goldsmith, and Sir William Johnson, 1st Baronet.

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In France

Among people born in France, François Quesnay ranks 297 out of 6,770Before him are Raymond Poincaré (1860), Paul Signac (1863), Vincent de Paul (1581), Jules Massenet (1842), Georges Méliès (1861), and Carlo Buonaparte (1746). After him are Amadeus VIII, Duke of Savoy (1383), Charles Fourier (1772), Ferdinand Foch (1851), Alfred Werner (1866), Urbain Le Verrier (1811), and Claude Lorrain (1600).

Among ECONOMISTS In France

Among economists born in France, François Quesnay ranks 3Before him are Frédéric Passy (1822), and Vilfredo Pareto (1848). After him are Jean-Baptiste Say (1767), Anne Robert Jacques Turgot (1727), Maurice Allais (1911), Léon Walras (1834), Jacques Delors (1925), Dominique Strauss-Kahn (1949), Frédéric Bastiat (1801), Gérard Debreu (1921), and Jean-Claude Trichet (1942).