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Not for 50 years has the heartland of America been the physiocratic demi-Eden of American myth, the pastoral paradise hymned by Jefferson and Thoreau, limned by Eakins and Wyeth.
From Time Magazine Archive
Quotes one who suggests Franklin was "half physiocratic before the rise of the physiocratic school."
From Benjamin Franklin Representative selections, with introduction, bibliograpy, and notes by Chester E. Jorgenson
Lafayette accepted the first correction but not the second; he was too much under the influence of his physiocratic friends even to understand the much more advanced theory of Jefferson.
From Thomas Jefferson The Apostle of Americanism by Gilbert Chinard
Where it is not based on limited physiocratic views it is founded on the childish error that commodities pass from hand to hand in continuous rotation.
From The Jewish State by Louis Lipsky
He saw that wealth did not increase step by step with the increased productiveness of labour; but he believed he had discovered the cause of this in the mercantilistic and physiocratic sins of the past.
From Freeland A Social Anticipation by Theodor Hertzka
