ECONOMIST

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. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Jacques Claude Marie Vincent de Gournay has received more than 49,444 page views. His biography is available in 17 different languages on Wikipedia. Jacques Claude Marie Vincent de Gournay is the 168th most popular economist (down from 154th in 2019), the 2,238th most popular biography from France (down from 1,968th in 2019) and the 15th most popular French Economist.

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Among ECONOMISTS

Among economists, Jacques Claude Marie Vincent de Gournay ranks 168 out of 414. Before him are Roger Myerson, Piero Sraffa, Myron Scholes, Raymond Barre, Henry George, and Henry Sidgwick. After him are Lionel Robbins, Wilhelm Röpke, Pierre Leroux, George Shultz, Walter Eucken, and Lars Peter Hansen.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1712, Jacques Claude Marie Vincent de Gournay ranks 13. Before him are Joanna Elisabeth of Holstein-Gottorp, Pauline Félicité de Mailly-Nesle, Charles-Michel de l'Épée, Tokugawa Ieshige, Louis-Joseph de Montcalm, and Francesco Algarotti. After him are Toriyama Sekien, George Grenville, Johann Samuel König, Claude Bourgelat, Charles, Prince of Nassau-Usingen, and Count Johann Hartwig Ernst von Bernstorff. Among people deceased in 1759, Jacques Claude Marie Vincent de Gournay ranks 9. Before him are Louise Élisabeth of France, Pierre Louis Maupertuis, Anne, Princess Royal and Princess of Orange, Carl Heinrich Graun, Louis-Joseph de Montcalm, and Prince Karl Anton August of Schleswig-Holstein-Sonderburg-Beck. After him are Anton Wilhelm Amo, Alamgir II, Louise Henriette de Bourbon, Ewald Christian von Kleist, James Wolfe, and Sedjefakare.

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In France

Among people born in France, Jacques Claude Marie Vincent de Gournay ranks 2,238 out of 6,770. Before him are Christian Jacq (1947), Eugene Maurice, Count of Soissons (1635), Étienne Dolet (1509), Sébastien Japrisot (1931), Elena Poniatowska (1932), and Léon Brillouin (1889). After him are Françoise Madeleine d'Orléans (1648), Sophie Gengembre Anderson (1823), Jacques Amyot (1513), Joseph Monier (1823), René Fonck (1894), and Thierry Sabine (1949).

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Among ECONOMISTS In France

Among economists born in France, Jacques Claude Marie Vincent de Gournay ranks 15. Before him are Maurice Allais (1911), Dominique Strauss-Kahn (1949), Jean-Claude Trichet (1942), Gérard Debreu (1921), Jean Tirole (1953), and Pierre Guillaume Frédéric le Play (1806). After him are Pierre Leroux (1797), Victor de Riqueti, marquis de Mirabeau (1715), Thomas Piketty (1971), Clément Juglar (1819), Michel Camdessus (1933), and Bertrand de Jouvenel (1903).

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