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Jacques Claude Marie Vincent de Gournay

1712 - 1759

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Jacques Claude Marie Vincent de Gournay (French: [də ɡuʁnɛ]; 28 May 1712, Saint-Malo – 27 June 1759, Cádiz), was a French economist, who became an intendant of commerce. Some historians of economics believe that he coined the phrase laissez faire, laissez passer. Evidence was to be found when the French State parted the East India Company privilege (monopoly) on the slave trade. He is also credited with coining the term "bureaucracy". Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Jacques Claude Marie Vincent de Gournay is the 182nd most popular economist (down from 168th in 2019), the 2,442nd most popular biography from France (down from 2,239th in 2019) and the 15th most popular French Economist.

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Among ECONOMISTS

Among economists, Jacques Claude Marie Vincent de Gournay ranks 182 out of 414. Before him are Jim Rogers, Oliver Hart, Piero Sraffa, Eli Heckscher, János Kornai, and Wilhelm Röpke. After him are Myron Scholes, Francis Ysidro Edgeworth, Nicholas Georgescu-Roegen, Michel Camdessus, Walter Eucken, and Peter Navarro.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1712, Jacques Claude Marie Vincent de Gournay ranks 14. Before him are Charles-Michel de l'Épée, Tokugawa Ieshige, Pauline Félicité de Mailly-Nesle, George Grenville, Louis-Joseph de Montcalm, and Francesco Algarotti. After him are Toriyama Sekien, John Stanley, James Steuart, Karl Friedrich, Duke of Saxe-Meiningen, Johann Samuel König, and Konrad Ernst Ackermann. Among people deceased in 1759, Jacques Claude Marie Vincent de Gournay ranks 11. Before him are Louise Henriette de Bourbon, Anne, Princess Royal and Princess of Orange, Prince Karl Anton August of Schleswig-Holstein-Sonderburg-Beck, Carl Heinrich Graun, Anton Wilhelm Amo, and Louis-Joseph de Montcalm. After him are Sedjefakare, James Wolfe, Nicolaus I Bernoulli, Ewald Christian von Kleist, Alamgir II, and Jacob Theodor Klein.

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In France

Among people born in France, Jacques Claude Marie Vincent de Gournay ranks 2,442 out of 6,770. Before him are Albert, 4th duc de Broglie (1821), Philippe Sollers (1936), Raymonde de Laroche (1882), Bernard Palissy (1510), Henry Darcy (1803), and Aldegonde (639). After him are Yann Tiersen (1970), Marie Bracquemond (1840), Isabelle Aubret (1938), Édouard René de Laboulaye (1811), René Caillié (1799), and Aurore Clément (1945).

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Among ECONOMISTS In France

Among economists born in France, Jacques Claude Marie Vincent de Gournay ranks 15. Before him are Dominique Strauss-Kahn (1949), Frédéric Bastiat (1801), Gérard Debreu (1921), Jean-Claude Trichet (1942), Jean Tirole (1953), and Pierre Guillaume Frédéric le Play (1806). After him are Michel Camdessus (1933), Thomas Piketty (1971), Clément Juglar (1819), Pierre Leroux (1797), Victor de Riqueti, marquis de Mirabeau (1715), and Bertrand de Jouvenel (1903).

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