François Quesnay modeled the French economy after the human body, likening the flow of money through a nation to blood coursing through a body’s veins; he compared ruinous government policies ...

Writers like A.R.J. Turgot, the Marquis de Condorcet and Francois Quesnay are not household names, unlike Adam Smith or David Ricardo. But they are important. According to one late-19th century ...

Owing to what Francois Quesnay, the most famous member of this school, regarded as the ”unique regenerative qualities of the land,“ only agricultural activity could produce a surplus–that is, an ...