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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 45,332 page views. His biography is available in 16 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 15 in 2019). Pierre Le Pesant, sieur de Boisguilbert is the 225th most popular economist (down from 223rd in 2019), the 3,107th most popular biography from France (down from 3,101st in 2019) and the 22nd most popular French Economist.

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Among ECONOMISTS

Among economists, Pierre Le Pesant, sieur de Boisguilbert ranks 225 out of 315. Before him are David D. Friedman, Jon Elster, Benjamin Tucker, E. F. Schumacher, Henry Hazlitt, and Giovanni Arrighi. After him are George Shultz, Fritz Machlup, Colin Clark, Johann Karl Rodbertus, Étienne Laspeyres, and Mahbub ul Haq.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1646, Pierre Le Pesant, sieur de Boisguilbert ranks 14. Before him are Tokugawa Tsunayoshi, Maria Francisca of Savoy, Godfrey Kneller, Hortense Mancini, Charles Plumier, and Frederick I, Duke of Saxe-Gotha-Altenburg. After him are Élisabeth Marguerite d'Orléans, Glückel of Hameln, Johann Theile, and Paul Hermann. Among people deceased in 1714, Pierre Le Pesant, sieur de Boisguilbert ranks 13. Before him are Andreas Schlüter, Marie Anne Mancini, Anthony Ulrich, Duke of Brunswick-Wolfenbüttel, Constantin Brâncoveanu, Carlo Fontana, and Vasily Golitsyn. After him is Matthew Henry.

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In France

Among people born in France, Pierre Le Pesant, sieur de Boisguilbert ranks 3,107 out of 6,011. Before him are Jacques Vallée (1939), Michel Berger (1947), Élisabeth Badinter (1944), François de La Rocque (1885), Jean-Baptiste Vuillaume (1798), and Princess Marguerite of Orléans (1846). After him are Wolfgang Capito (1478), Isidore Geoffroy Saint-Hilaire (1805), Victor Segalen (1878), Élie, duc Decazes (1780), Simon Marmion (1425), and Marcel Prévost (1862).

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Among ECONOMISTS In France

Among economists born in France, Pierre Le Pesant, sieur de Boisguilbert ranks 22. Before him are Victor de Riqueti, marquis de Mirabeau (1715), Bertrand de Jouvenel (1903), Thomas Piketty (1971), Pierre Leroux (1797), Michel Camdessus (1933), and Clément Juglar (1819). After him are Olivier Blanchard (1948), Esther Duflo (1972), and Muriel Casals i Couturier (1945).

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