Physiocracy, Antiphysiocracy and Pfeiffer

• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Other Authors: Backhaus, Jürgen Georg (Editor)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: New York, NY : Springer New York, 2011.
• Series: The European Heritage in Economics and the Social Sciences ; 10
• Subjects: Political science.; Economic history.; Social sciences.; Economics.; Methodology/History of Economic Thought.; Political Science.; Social Sciences, general.

Physiocracy, or the economic theory that a nation’s wealth comes from is agricultural and land development, was a popular school of thought in France in the 18th century. It was short-lived and it did not take long for the counter position, called Antiphysiocracy, to succeed it. Antiphysiokrat (1780...