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Pierre Le Pesant, sieur de Boisguilbert

1646 - 1714

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Pierre le Pesant, sieur de Boisguilbert or Boisguillebert (French: [bwaɡilbɛʁ]; 17 February 1646 – 10 October 1714) was a French lawmaker and a Jansenist, one of the inventors of the notion of an economic market. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Pierre Le Pesant, sieur de Boisguilbert has received more than 48,791 page views. His biography is available in 16 different languages on Wikipedia. Pierre Le Pesant, sieur de Boisguilbert is the 246th most popular economist (down from 223rd in 2019), the 3,624th most popular biography from France (down from 3,095th in 2019) and the 23rd most popular French Economist.

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Among ECONOMISTS

Among economists, Pierre Le Pesant, sieur de Boisguilbert ranks 246 out of 414. Before him are Étienne Laspeyres, Arthur Melvin Okun, Hernando de Soto Polar, Abhijit Banerjee, David Card, and Leszek Balcerowicz. After him are Georg Friedrich Knapp, Theodore Levitt, Esther Duflo, Robert Barro, Edward Chamberlin, and Alexander Gerschenkron.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1646, Pierre Le Pesant, sieur de Boisguilbert ranks 16. Before him are Maria Francisca of Savoy, Hortense Mancini, Alexandre Exquemelin, Charles Plumier, Frederick I, Duke of Saxe-Gotha-Altenburg, and Élisabeth Marguerite d'Orléans. After him are Glückel of Hameln, Johann Theile, Nicolas de Fer, Paul Hermann, and Jean Hardouin. Among people deceased in 1714, Pierre Le Pesant, sieur de Boisguilbert ranks 13. Before him are Charlotte Amalie of Hesse-Kassel, Marie Anne Mancini, Anthony Ulrich, Duke of Brunswick-Wolfenbüttel, Constantin Brâncoveanu, Carlo Fontana, and Vasily Golitsyn. After him are Gottfried Arnold, Kaibara Ekken, Prince Frederick William of Schleswig-Holstein-Sonderburg-Augustenburg, Matthew Henry, and Edmund Andros.

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In France

Among people born in France, Pierre Le Pesant, sieur de Boisguilbert ranks 3,624 out of 6,770. Before him are Santiago de Liniers, 1st Count of Buenos Aires (1753), David Belle (1973), Viviane Romance (1912), Germaine Tillion (1907), Françoise d'Eaubonne (1920), and Jean Martinon (1910). After him are Henri Brocard (1845), Georges Rayet (1839), Joseph Valentin Boussinesq (1842), Noël Martin Joseph de Necker (1730), Robert, 1st Earl of Gloucester (1090), and Charles Louis L'Héritier de Brutelle (1746).

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Among ECONOMISTS In France

Among economists born in France, Pierre Le Pesant, sieur de Boisguilbert ranks 23. Before him are Victor de Riqueti, marquis de Mirabeau (1715), Thomas Piketty (1971), Clément Juglar (1819), Michel Camdessus (1933), Bertrand de Jouvenel (1903), and Olivier Blanchard (1948). After him are Esther Duflo (1972), Jérôme-Adolphe Blanqui (1798), and Muriel Casals i Couturier (1945).

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