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Anne Robert Jacques Turgot, Baron de Laune 1727-1781 - France


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philosophe, writer of the Encyclopédie. proposed taxation of all landholders

advocated the free-trade and free-competition principles of Vincent de Gournay and was a disciple of the physiocrats.


Reading

Réflexions sur la formation et la distribution des richesses.

There is a five-volume edition of his works by Gustave Schelle (1913–23, in French)

Writing available on the net


Commentaries

See L. Say, Turgot (1888, tr. 1888); 

D. Dakin, Turgot and the Ancien Régime in France (1939, repr. 1965).


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