Anne Robert Jacques Turgot
Anne Robert Jacques Turgot, Baron de l'Aulne (/tʊərˈɡoʊ/ toor-GOH; French: [tyʁgo]; 10 May 1727 – 18 March 1781), commonly known as Turgot, was a French economist and statesman. Sometimes considered a physiocrat, he is today best remembered as an early advocate for economic liberalism. He is thought to have been the first political economist to have postulated something like the law of diminishing marginal returns in agriculture.
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Portrait of Turgot by Antoine Graincourt, now in Versailles | |
| First Minister of State | |
| In office 24 August 1774 – 12 May 1776 | |
| Monarch | Louis XVI |
| Preceded by | René Nicolas de Maupeou |
| Succeeded by | The Count of Maurepas |
| Controller-General of Finances | |
| In office 24 August 1774 – 12 May 1776 | |
| Monarch | Louis XVI |
| Preceded by | Joseph Marie Terray |
| Succeeded by | Baron de Nuits |
| Secretaries of State for the Navy | |
| In office 20 July 1774 – 24 August 1774 | |
| Monarch | Louis XVI |
| Preceded by | Marquis de Boynes |
| Succeeded by | Antoine de Sartine |
| Personal details | |
| Born | 10 May 1727 Paris, France |
| Died | 18 March 1781 (aged 53) Paris, France |
| influenced | Condorcet · Maistre · Rothbard · Schumpeter · Smith · Marx · Keynes |
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| Academic career | |
| Field | Political economics |
| School or tradition | Physiocrats |
| Alma mater | Sorbonne |
| Influences | Montesquieu · Quesnay |
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