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Definition of physiocrat in English: physiocratnoun ˈfɪzɪəkratˈfɪziəˌkræt A member of an 18th-century group of French economists who believed that agriculture was the source of all wealth and that agricultural products should be highly priced. Advocating adherence to a supposed natural order of social institutions, they also stressed the necessity of free trade. 重农主义者(18世纪法国一经济学派成员,认为农业是一切财富之源,农产品应定高价,主张遵循一种假设的社会制度的自然秩序,强调自由贸易的必要性) Example sentencesExamples - One of Atkinson's final arguments is that the single tax was tried in France before the French Revolution, under the physiocrats, led by Turgot, and proved a miserable failure.
- It can be traced in the theories of public finance to the work of the 18th century French physiocrats.
- The precursors of classical political economy were, of course, the physiocrats, who articulated a concept of social class on the basis of a series of theoretical deductions.
- The physiocrats placed particular stress upon patterns that emerge from laissez-faire.
- The physiocrats' use of the simple phrase classe propriétaire (land-owning class) is indicative, because it enabled them to avoid the question of social rank.
- Unfortunately the BNF's Gallica site, which has some of the physiocrats' works in its index, doesn't provide the option of sorting its results by date.
- Under the influence of liberal economists, and especially the physiocrat Gournay, author of the phrase laissez-passer, laissez-faire, guild monopolies were increasingly bypassed so as to allow market forces to take their course.
- However, the French physiocrats and the British classical economists entirely destroyed the rest of the mercantilist scheme.
- Like the French physiocrats, the enlighteners argued for a return to agriculture, based, however, more on their romanticization of the Bible than on solid economic theory.
- The principles of laissez-faire and the ideas of the physiocrats were invoked even in the Papal States, where the customs system and the urban provisioning regulations were reformed in the same years.
- Smith shared the objection of the French physiocrats to the mercantile system, but he did not share their view that land is the sole source of wealth.
- Smith's view of taxes on land has been the general view among economists since then, and in fact one can trace Smith's argument to the French physiocrats who preceded him.
Derivativesnoun ˌfɪzɪˈɒkrəsiˌfɪziˈɑkrəsi Chapters 2 to 11 provide surveys of traditional topics such as ancient Greek and medieval economics, mercantilism, physiocracy, political arithmetic, Adam Smith, classical economics, and Marx. Example sentencesExamples - The result was a new category of science whose original nomenclature, ‘physiocracy’ (the rule of nature), was discarded for that of ‘economics’ but then restored as other schools emerged, each with its distinctive emphasis.
adjective ˌfɪzɪəˈkratɪkˌfɪziəˈkrædɪk Government ministers, who found it impossible to reduce royal expenditures, were particularly seduced by the physiocratic idea of stimulating agriculture and then taxing the resulting wealth. Example sentencesExamples - The monarchy, operating partly upon physiocratic principles, threatened the guilds with abolition in 1776.
- It will be evident from the book's title that our attention is to be directed at those enlightenment authors who were roughly a generation younger than Quesnay and his physiocratic contemporaries.
- It is a descriptive account, with occasional physiocratic remarks, that essentially transcribes documents from diverse origins, mainly the companies themselves.
OriginLate 18th century: from French physiocrate, from physiocratie 'physiocracy' (see physio-, -cracy). Definition of physiocrat in US English: physiocratnounˈfɪziəˌkrætˈfizēəˌkrat A member of an 18th-century group of French economists who believed that agriculture was the source of all wealth and that agricultural products should be highly priced. Advocating adherence to a supposed natural order of social institutions, they also stressed the necessity of free trade. 重农主义者(18世纪法国一经济学派成员,认为农业是一切财富之源,农产品应定高价,主张遵循一种假设的社会制度的自然秩序,强调自由贸易的必要性) Example sentencesExamples - The precursors of classical political economy were, of course, the physiocrats, who articulated a concept of social class on the basis of a series of theoretical deductions.
- The physiocrats' use of the simple phrase classe propriétaire (land-owning class) is indicative, because it enabled them to avoid the question of social rank.
- Under the influence of liberal economists, and especially the physiocrat Gournay, author of the phrase laissez-passer, laissez-faire, guild monopolies were increasingly bypassed so as to allow market forces to take their course.
- It can be traced in the theories of public finance to the work of the 18th century French physiocrats.
- The principles of laissez-faire and the ideas of the physiocrats were invoked even in the Papal States, where the customs system and the urban provisioning regulations were reformed in the same years.
- However, the French physiocrats and the British classical economists entirely destroyed the rest of the mercantilist scheme.
- Smith shared the objection of the French physiocrats to the mercantile system, but he did not share their view that land is the sole source of wealth.
- One of Atkinson's final arguments is that the single tax was tried in France before the French Revolution, under the physiocrats, led by Turgot, and proved a miserable failure.
- Smith's view of taxes on land has been the general view among economists since then, and in fact one can trace Smith's argument to the French physiocrats who preceded him.
- The physiocrats placed particular stress upon patterns that emerge from laissez-faire.
- Unfortunately the BNF's Gallica site, which has some of the physiocrats' works in its index, doesn't provide the option of sorting its results by date.
- Like the French physiocrats, the enlighteners argued for a return to agriculture, based, however, more on their romanticization of the Bible than on solid economic theory.
OriginLate 18th century: from French physiocrate, from physiocratie ‘physiocracy’ (see physio-, -cracy). |