Turgot
Americannoun
noun
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Rothbard blamed Smith’s celebrity for blotting out the better work of abler minds, but Turgot had kept his genius mainly to himself.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 21, 2026
Her contemporary, Bishop Turgot, recorded that she summoned Church councils and argued for days against opponents of reform.
From BBC ● Oct. 14, 2016
Frenchman Sebastien Turgot, who was on the attack all day, finished second, outsprinting Italian Alessandro Ballan on the Roubaix velodrome.
From New York Times ● Apr. 9, 2012
The "let-alone" theory was central to the 18th century economic school of the Physiocrats, led by Francois Quesnay and Anne-Robert-Jacques Turgot.
From Salon ● Jun. 15, 2010
In France the doctrine was represented by Turgot and Condorcet.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 10, Slice 1 "Evangelical Church Conference" to "Fairbairn, Sir William" by Various
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