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Anne Robert Jacques Turgot, Baron de l'Aulne [a] ( / tʊərˈɡoʊ / toor-GOH; French: [tyʁgo]; 10 May 1727 – 18 March 1781), commonly known as Turgot, was a French economist and statesman. Sometimes considered a physiocrat, [2] he is today best remembered as an early advocate for economic liberalism. [3]
Mar 1, 2001 · Turgot discovered political economy and wrote. his first essays on economics and history, most. notably an oration on “A Philosophical Review of. the Successive Advances of the Human Mind”. (1750) 1 where he made the first. of several contributions to the development of the. “4 stage theory” of economic and social.
His writings in this period included contributions to the Encyclopédie in metaphysics, linguistics, science, economics, and political theory, as well as short writings over a similarly broad range of fields, but his contemplated major work on the history of human progress never materialized.
Aug 5, 2021 · Introduction. Anne-Robert-Jacques Turgot was the French kingdom’s Contrôleur Général (a kind of Minister of Finance) in the first government of young King Louis XVI from 1774 to 1776. During this brief period, he attempted to implement wide-ranging economic and administrative reforms that he believed were an absolute necessity to stave off ...
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Anne-Robert-Jacques Turgot. 1727-1781. T urgot was the French Adam Smith. His Reflections on the Production and Distribution of Wealth, which predated Smith’s The Wealth of Nations by ten years, argues against government intervention in the economic sector.
The continuing significance of Anne Robert Jacques Turgot (1727–1781) is both as a founder of modern economic science and as a powerful shaper of the Enlightenment idea of progress. The youthful Turgot was deeply moved by the liberal temper of Montesquieu 's L'Esprit des Lois (1748).
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Jan 1, 2017 · Turgot, Anne Robert Jacques, Baron de L’Aulne (1727–1781) Published: 03 November 2016. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1057/978-1-349-95121-5_1385-1. Economist, philosopher and administrator, Turgot was born in Paris, in 1727, the third son of a well-established Norman family with a long tradition of public service in the magistrature.
