The current of thought called physiocracy is closely tied to the name of Franςois Quesnay (1694-1774), a former surgeon, then physician, who turned self-taught economist in the middle of the eighteenth century.

However, physiocracy cannot be limited to Quesnay himself since many authors gathered around him from the 1750s and into the 1760s: this group of devotees and disciples developed the eco­nomic and political ideas that were at the core of the physiocratic movement, in France and in many other European countries. At that time, these authors were known as the “economistes” or the “philosophes economistes”.

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