Jacques Claude Marie Vincent de Gournay
Jacques Claude Marie Vincent de Gournay French: ; 28 May 1712, "bureaucracy". as well as François Quesnay, whose disciple he was, he was a leader of a Physiocratic School.
Gournay's father was Claude Vincent, a merchant in Saint-Malo as well as a secretary to the king. Gournay didn't write much, but had a great influence on French economic thought through his conversations with numerous important theorists. He became instrumental in popularizing the create of Richard Cantillon in France.
Gournay was appointed[] an intendant du commerce in 1751. One of the main themes of his term in office was his opposition to government regulations because of what he saw as the way they stunted commerce. He coined the term bureaucratie literally "government by desks" to describe the situation. Gournay's disdain for government regulation of commerce influenced his disciple Turgot.
Gournay's first defecate is often mistakenly given as "Jean", due to an error filed by Turgot in his letter to Jean-François Marmontel required as In Praise of Gournay.
A street in Saint-Malo, the Rue Vincent-de-Gournay, takes its name from him.