Quesnay

[ ke-ne ]

noun

1. Fran·çois [f, r, ah, n, -, swa], 1694–1774, French economist and physician.

Quesnay

/ kɛnɛ /

noun

1. QuesnayFrançois16941774MFrenchPOLITICS: political economistWRITING: encyclopedistMEDICINE: physician François (frɑ̃swa). 1694–1774, French political economist, encyclopedist, and physician. He propounded the theory championed by the physiocrats in his Tableau économique (1758)

Example Sentences

According to Quesnay and the early economists, all production comes from the land.

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No one had seriously studied the crime of Quesnay before him.

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He was no more a disciple of Quesnay than of Adam Smith, simply because he was not an economist but a sociologist.

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He states himself that the affair of the Forest of Quesnay was "tragic, strange and mysterious!"

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Seeing his chief fall, he thought it best to retreat; and ran to the hamlet of Quesnay to get help.

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