Anne-Robert-Jacques

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Anne-Robert-Jacques Turgot was an 18th-century French economist and statesman known for his early advocacy of economic liberalism and his reforms as Controller-General of Finances under Louis XVI.

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instanceOf Enlightenment thinker
French politician
economist
human
statesman
advocated free trade
laissez-faire economic policy
birthCountry France
birthDate 1727-05-10
birthPlace Paris
citizenship France
deathCountry France
deathDate 1781-03-18
deathPlace Paris
education Collège du Plessis
La Sorbonne
surface form: Sorbonne
era Age of Enlightenment
familyName Anne-Robert-Jacques Turgot
surface form: Turgot
father Anne-Robert-Jacques Turgot
surface form: Michel-Étienne Turgot
fieldOfWork political economy
fullName Anne-Robert-Jacques Turgot
gender male
givenName Anne-Robert-Jacques self-linksurface differs
influenced Adam Smith
classical economics
knownFor early advocacy of economic liberalism
reforms as Controller-General of Finances under Louis XVI
language French
monarchServed Louis XVI of France
movement physiocracy
surface form: Physiocracy

economic liberalism
nationality French
nobleTitle Baron de l'Aulne
notableWork Lettre sur la liberté du commerce des grains
Réflexions sur la formation et la distribution des richesses
occupation economist
philosopher
politician
statesman
positionHeld Jean-Baptiste Colbert
surface form: Controller-General of Finances of France

Intendant of Limoges
Minister of the Navy of France
reform abolition of corvée labour in France
attempted deregulation of the grain trade
efforts to reduce government expenditure
religion Roman Catholicism
termEnd 1776
termStart 1774
theoryDeveloped theory of capital and interest

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