Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Of or pertaining to government according to nature; specifically, of or pertaining to the physiocrats or their doctrines: as, physiocratic theories; the physiocratic school of political economy.
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Examples
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Jefferson would advocate that we all "come back to the land," to a more fundamental understanding of the physiocratic nature of wealth.
Paul Schwennesen: Too Big Has Failed... Occupy Wall Street and the Tea Party Are Similar Paul Schwennesen 2011
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In the physiocratic model, economic rent was derived from unrecompensed work done by Nature since in setting food prices, cultivators take in account their labor and expenses as well as the surplus value contributed by the fertility of the soil.
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Another source of revolutionary ideology that became the special target of Rehberg's wrath was physiocratic doctrine.
August Wilhelm Rehberg Beiser, Fred 2007
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A few thousand rich families the financial oligarchy, the same ones that ruled the world from Europe for most of modern history, will put us all back under the boot heel where we were before America stood up and threw off their corrupt and stinking physiocratic toilet of a system.
Think Progress » Rep. Tancredo: Bush Wants To Merge U.S. With Mexico and Canada 2006
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A few thousand rich families the financial oligarchy, the same ones that ruled the world from Europe for most of modern history, will put us all back under the boot heel where we were before America stood up and threw off their corrupt and stinking physiocratic toilet of a system.
Think Progress » Rep. Tancredo: Bush Wants To Merge U.S. With Mexico and Canada 2006
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It seems to be based on the physiocratic notion that the land is productive only up to a point and no further, while ignoring the striking industrial example of Israel next door.
The Jewish State in Question Avishai, Bernard 1975
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The peculiar physiocratic doctrine, however, that all economic surpluses arose from agri - culture and that manufacturing was “sterile,” pre - vented them from achieving a complete theory of economic equilibrium.
Dictionary of the History of Ideas KENNETH E. BOULDING 1968
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Most of the ideas of the physiocratic school are found in earlier writings.
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 12: Philip II-Reuss 1840-1916 1913
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In Italy the physiocratic school had few followers.
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 12: Philip II-Reuss 1840-1916 1913
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Laissez faire was a good doctrine for the eighteenth century because there was need of a reaction, but it was a mistake to set it up as a universal principle applicable under all conditions, The chief weakness in the physiocratic teaching lay in its theory of value.
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 12: Philip II-Reuss 1840-1916 1913
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