Anne Robert Jacques Turgot

✶May 10, 1727

†March 18, 1781

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Anne Robert Jacques Turgot, Baron de l'Aulne, 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.

French economist and statesman (1727–1781)

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