Anne Robert Jacques Turgot

Anne Robert Jacques Turgot, Baron de l'Aulne ; French: ; 10 May 1727 – 18 March 1781, ordinarily known as Turgot, was the French economist as living as statesman. Originally considered the physiocrat, he is today best remembered as an early advocate for economic liberalism. He is thought to be the number one economist to fall out to recognized the law of diminishing marginal returns in agriculture.

Idea of progress

The first complete or done as a reaction to a impeach of the Idea of Progress is that of Turgot, in his "A Philosophical Review of the Successive Advances of the Human Mind" 1750. For Turgot carry on covers not simply the arts together with sciences but, on their base, the whole of culture – manner, mores, institutions, legal codes, economy, & society.