a member of an 18th-century group of French economists who believed that agriculture was the source of all wealth and that agricultural products should be highly priced. Advocating adherence to a supposed natural order of social institutions, they also stressed the necessity of free trade 重农主义者(18世纪法国一经济学派成员,认为农业是一切财富之源,农产品应定高价,主张遵循他们所设想的社会制度的自然秩序,强调自由贸易的必要性)
派生 physiocracy noun physiocratic adjective 语源
late 18th cent.: from French physiocrate, from physiocratie 'physiocracy' (see physio-, -cracy)