GOURNAY, VINCENT DE

văNsäNˈ də goornāˈ, 1712–59, French economist, precursor of the physiocrats and of Adam Smith. A wealthy merchant, he was in government service as intendant of commerce from 1751 to 1758. He translated and annotated the chief work of Josiah Child (see under Child, Sir John and gathered around him a group of men interested in reforming the economy of France and in abolishing trade restrictions. His favorite phrase was "Laissez faire, laissez passer," and he is generally credited with being its originator. Unlike the physiocrats, he regarded industry and commerce as well as agriculture to be important sources of wealth.

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The Classical Theory of Economic Growth
Book by Walter Eltis; Palgrave, 2000
Subjects: Classical School Of Economics, Economic Development--History
...A. xiii Godwin, William 119 24 , 347 , 359 gold and silver mining 183 7 , 226 , 349 Gordon, B. J. 348 , 359 Gournay, Vincent de xix Gram, H. 356 , 365 Gray, J. 345 , 359 growth of output: Quesnay xxxii xxxiii , 33 , 39 67 , 314 15...
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On the Origins of Classical Economics: Distribution and Value from William Petty to Adam Smith
Book by Tony Aspromourgos; Routledge, 1996
...Galileo) (1564-1642) 54 Gassendi, Pierre (1592-1655) 10 geometry 57 , 63 , 66 -7, 193 Goddard, Jonathan 11 Gournay, Vincent de 151 Gramsci, Antonio (1891-1937) 71 Graunt, John 1 , 182 -3, 212 -13, 218 Gresham College 13 Grew...
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The History and Philosophy of Social Science
Book by Scott Gordon; Routledge, 1993
...Concerning Political Justice 221-2 Gould, Stephen Jay 327-8 , 502-3 , 507-8 Gouldner, Alvin W.: quoted 298 Gournay, Vincent de 223 Gresham, Sir Thomas 473 Grosseteste, Robert 72 Grote, George 296 ; History of Greece 296 h Hacking, Ian...
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Italy in the Age of Reason, 1685-1789
Book by Dino Carpanetto, Giuseppe Ricuperati, Caroline Higgitt; Longman, 1987
Subjects: Italy--History--1559-1789
...Yves, 299 Goldoni, Carlo, 315 Gonzaga, family, 140 , 141 Gorani, Giuseppe, 271 , 280 Gottingen, 277 , 280 Gournay, Vincent de, 255 Gozzi, G., 264 , 265 Gramsci, Antonio, 325 , 327 Grand Tour, 311 Gravina, Gian Vincenzo, 84 -8...
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The Materialist Conception of History: A Critical Analysis
Book by Karl Federn; Macmillan, 1939
Subjects: History--Philosophy, Marx, Karl--1818-1883
...Gobineau, Count Joseph, ix ., x ., 34 Goethe, J. W., 96 , 99 Goffe, General, 123 Goldscheid, Adolf, 217 Gournay, Vincent, 114 Gracchi, the, 76 , 79 Gregory IX, Pope, 85 Grosse, Ernst, 50 , 51 , 53 , 55 Gustavus Adolphus, King...
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journal articles on: Gournay Vincent De  - 7 results

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The Myth of the Bureaucratic Paradigm: What Traditional Public Administration Really Stood For
Journal article by Laurence E. Jr. Lynn; Public Administration Review, Vol. 61, 2001
Subjects: Paradigms (Social sciences)--Analysis, Public administration--Analysis, Public policy (Law)--History, Social policy--Management
...coinage of the term "bureaucracy" (bureaucratie) to Vincent de Gournay, "an eighteenth-century French minister of commerce...Sector. Reading, MA: Addison-Wesley. Ostrom, Vincent J. 1973. The Intellectual Crisis in American Public...
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Reviewed Elsewhere
Journal article; Biography, Vol. 27, 2004
Subjects: Book reviewing--Bibliography, Book reviews--Bibliography
...Le Monde des Livres, Apr. 9, 2004: 4. Gournay, Marie de Marie de Gournay: Un cas litteraire. Giovanna Devincenzo. Paris...2003. 350 pp. EUR19. Until recently Marie de Gournay was considered only as the editor and corrector...
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L'histoire Urbaine Au Canada : L'espace, Les Citadins et Les Gouvernants
Journal article by Claire Poitras; Urban History Review, Vol. 32, 2003
Subjects: Cities and towns, Cities and towns--History
...2001) : 166. (6.) Michel Bassand et Vincent Kaufmann, << Mobilite spatiale et processus...Septentrion, 1999). (11.) Isabelle Gournay et France Vanlaethem, dir., Montreal...University of Toronto Press, 1999). (63.) Gournay et Vanlaethem, dir., Montreal Metropole...
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Shouting Down Abraham: How Sixteenth Century Huguenot Women Found Their Voice
Journal article by Catharine Randall; Renaissance Quarterly, Vol. 50, 1997
Subjects: Calvinism--Analysis, Huguenots--Literature, Women authors--History
...Another noted female amanuesis, Marie de Gournay, Montaignes literary adoptive daughter...Renaissance than Reformation figure, de Gournay actually had more latitude to develop...Old Regime. Ithaca, 1992. Jullien, Vincent. "Le corps, matiere premiere de la...
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"Canadian Castles"? the Question of National Styles in Architecture Revisited
Journal article by Christopher Thomas; Journal of Canadian Studies, Vol. 32, 1997
Subjects: Architecture, Canada, History & criticism, Psychological aspects, United Kingdom, United States
...anglophile Canadian nationalist, Vincent Massey, in the foreword to...with the working-title "Vincent Massey: Art and Nationality...the earlier 1880s appear in Vincent J. Scully, Jr., The Shingle...Arts, 1991); and Isabelle Gournay, ed., Ernest Cormier and...
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encyclopedia articles on: Gournay Vincent De  - 3 results

 
 
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Gournay, Vincent De
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
GOURNAY, VINCENT DE vaNsaN d goorna , 1712 59, French economist, precursor of the physiocrats and of Adam Smith. A wealthy merchant, he was...
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Turgot, Anne Robert Jacques
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
...formation et la distribution des richesses. He advocated the free-trade and free-competition principles of Vincent de Gournay and was a disciple of the physiocrats . In Limoges, then one of the poorest provinces of France, he applied some...
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Physiocrats
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
...physiocracy the single-tax schemes of the marquis de Vauban and the sieur de Boisguilbert and the free-trade ideas of Vincent de Gournay may be cited. However, Quesnays original contribution, and the basis of the doctrine, was the axiom that all...


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