Anne-Robert-Jacques Turgot

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Anne-Robert-Jacques Turgot was an 18th-century French economist, statesman, and early advocate of economic liberalism whose ideas influenced later classical economics.

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instanceOf Enlightenment thinker
French politician
economist
human
statesman
appointedBy Louis XVI of France
countryOfCitizenship France
Kingdom of France
dateOfBirth 1727-05-10
dateOfDeath 1781-03-18
describedAs early advocate of economic liberalism
reformer of French public finances
educatedAt Collège du Plessis
La Sorbonne
surface form: Sorbonne
era Age of Enlightenment
familyName Anne-Robert-Jacques Turgot self-linksurface differs
surface form: Turgot
fieldOfWork economics
political economy
politics
public finance
givenName Anne-Robert-Jacques
headOfGovernment Louis XVI of France
influenced Adam Smith
classical economics
influencedBy François Quesnay
Vincent de Gournay
languageOfWorkOrName French
movement economic liberalism
physiocracy
nativeLanguage French
notableIdea capital accumulation theory
diminishing returns
free trade
laissez-faire
notableWork Lettre sur la liberté du commerce des grains
Réflexions sur la formation et la distribution des richesses
Éloge de Gournay
occupation economist
philosopher
politician
statesman
placeOfBirth Kingdom of France
Paris
placeOfDeath Kingdom of France
Paris
positionHeld Jean-Baptiste Colbert
surface form: Controller-General of Finances of France

Intendant of Limoges
Minister of the Navy of France
religion Roman Catholicism
sexOrGender male

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