Physiocrat

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  • n. Any of a group of economists in 18th century France who believed that the government should not seek to influence the operation of natural economic laws.
  • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • n. One of the followers of Quesnay of France, who, in the 18th century, founded a system of political economy based upon the supremacy of natural order.
  • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • n. One who advocates the doctrines of physiocracy; specifically, one of a group of French philosophers and political economists, followers of François Quesnay (1694-1774), which rose to prominence in the latter half of the eighteenth century, and maintained that a natural constitution or order exists in society, the violation of which has been the cause of all the evils suffered by man.
  • Word Usage
    "He holds, however, with Adam Smith, that 'no equal quantity of productive labour employed in manufactures could ever occasion so great a reproduction as in agriculture' (_Grounds of an Opinion, etc. _, p. 35) -- a relic of the 'physiocrat' doctrine."