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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. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of François Quesnay has received more than 462,479 page views. His biography is available in 51 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 47 in 2019). François Quesnay is the 13th most popular economist (down from 11th in 2019), the 291st most popular biography from France (down from 238th 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 13 out of 414. Before him are Friedrich Hayek, Milton Friedman, Vilfredo Pareto, Joseph Schumpeter, Frédéric Passy, and Alfred Marshall. After him are Ludwig von Mises, Klaus Schwab, John Law, Gunnar Myrdal, Paul Samuelson, and Jean-Baptiste Say.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1694, François Quesnay ranks 2. Before him is Voltaire. After him are Yeongjo of Joseon, Francis Hutcheson, Louis-Claude Daquin, Leonardo Leo, Charlotte Christine of Brunswick-Wolfenbüttel, Georg Brandt, Paul of the Cross, Hermann Samuel Reimarus, Theodore of Corsica, and Henry Pelham. Among people deceased in 1774, François Quesnay ranks 3. Before him are Louis XV of France, and Pope Clement XIV. After him are Charles Marie de La Condamine, Robert Clive, Niccolò Jommelli, Countess Palatine Caroline of Zweibrücken, Jacques-François Blondel, Duke Anthony Ulrich of Brunswick, Countess Caroline of Nassau-Saarbrücken, Oliver Goldsmith, and Johann Friedrich Agricola.

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In France

Among people born in France, François Quesnay ranks 291 out of 6,770. Before him are Pope Sylvester II (938), Joseph-Ignace Guillotin (1738), Francis de Sales (1567), Mireille Mathieu (1946), Louis Antoine de Saint-Just (1767), and Roger Vadim (1928). After him are Gabriel Fauré (1845), Gilbert du Motier, Marquis de Lafayette (1757), Robert II of France (972), J. M. G. Le Clézio (1940), Jérôme Bonaparte (1784), and Napoléon Louis Bonaparte (1804).

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Among ECONOMISTS In France

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

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