François Quesnay, French economist and physician (died 1774)

François Quesnay

French physician, Physiocratic economist, and orientalist (1694–1774)

François Quesnay was a French economist and physician of the Physiocratic school. He is known for publishing the "Tableau économique" in 1758, which provided the foundations of the ideas of the Physiocrats. This was perhaps the first work attempting to describe the workings of…