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Physiocrats
THE PHYSIOCRATS WERE a group of French Enlightenment thinkers of the 1760s who called themselves economists. The term physiocracy, introduced by Dupont de Nemours (1767), is derived from the Greek words physis (“nature”) and kratein (“rule”), implying thus a principal ...
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