François Quesnay

François Quesnay

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

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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.