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physiocrat|ˈfɪzɪəʊkræt|
Also in Fr. form -crate.
[a. F. physiocrate, f. physiocratie: see prec. and -crat.]
One of a school of political economists founded by François Quesnay in France in the 18th c.; they maintained that society should be governed according to an inherent natural order, that the soil is the sole source of wealth and the only proper object of taxation, and that security of property and freedom of industry and exchange are essential: = economist 4 c.
1798W. Taylor in Monthly Mag. V. 352 About the year 1774, the philosophic sect of Physiocrates was already organized into a political body. 1804― in Crit. Rev. Ser. iii. I. 21 The only merit of the economistes, or physiocrates, consists in arguing well against legal interference, and legal restraint. 1896Athenæum 19 Sept. 390 Questions..as to the relation of Adam Smith to the physiocrats. |