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- noun Plural form of
physiocrat .
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But it's not as if the entire discipline, with its roots in Adam Smith and the physiocrats and its tradition of rational inquiry, has been debunked; rather it was the predictive aspect of the field, with its all-seeing, all-knowing markets and its powerful grip on policymaking, that has taken the most knocks.
Robert Teitelman: Michael Hirsh's "Capital Offense" Robert Teitelman 2010
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Industry and commerce, according to the physiocrats, were basically “sterile” and could not add to the wealth created by the land.
Quesnay, François 2009
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In fact he praised the French physiocrats, with whom the term laissez-faire originated.
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But it's not as if the entire discipline, with its roots in Adam Smith and the physiocrats and its tradition of rational inquiry, has been debunked; rather it was the predictive aspect of the field, with its all-seeing, all-knowing markets and its powerful grip on policymaking, that has taken the most knocks.
Robert Teitelman: Michael Hirsh's "Capital Offense" Robert Teitelman 2010
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Quesnay and other physiocrats greatly influenced the views of Adam Smith and the fields of biophysical and ecological economics in the 20th century.
Quesnay, François 2009
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But it's not as if the entire discipline, with its roots in Adam Smith and the physiocrats and its tradition of rational inquiry, has been debunked; rather it was the predictive aspect of the field, with its all-seeing, all-knowing markets and its powerful grip on policymaking, that has taken the most knocks.
Robert Teitelman: Michael Hirsh's "Capital Offense" Robert Teitelman 2010
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In fact he praised the French physiocrats, with whom the term laissez-faire originated.
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But it's not as if the entire discipline, with its roots in Adam Smith and the physiocrats and its tradition of rational inquiry, has been debunked; rather it was the predictive aspect of the field, with its all-seeing, all-knowing markets and its powerful grip on policymaking, that has taken the most knocks.
Robert Teitelman: Michael Hirsh's "Capital Offense" Robert Teitelman 2010
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The physiocrats particularly highlighted the systematic relationships that exist between environment, land, food production, prices, rents, and other forms of economic development.
Archive 2009-03-01 Daniel Little 2009
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The physiocrats and the British political economists began to postulate causal connections between certain kinds of social facts—settlement, trade, extension of agriculture, and law—with certain kinds of outcomes—the creation of the wealth of nations.
Archive 2009-03-01 Daniel Little 2009
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