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NOTE Who were the Physiocrats?

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The interesting thing about physiocrats is that they were the first real sect of school of thought.

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And we know the date at which the school of thought was founded.

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It was one moment in July 1757 when Dr. Kenay, the founder, the guru of this thing, met Count Mirabeau,

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who in those days was a Catalonian. The Catalonic cycle immediately shifted to Kenay.

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And it became a two-man school of thought. I mean, to have a school of thought you have to have at least two people.

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and this was it. Now the thing is they're both very highly placed. King A was a physician, distinguished physician.

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He became the physician of the court, first of the king's top mistress. There was, by the way, a thing that the only way to influence the king and try to convert him, laissez-faire, was to convert the king's top mistress.

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This was done by Archbishop Fenning in the early 17th century, early 18th century, late 17th.

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And K.N.A. was a physician to Madame de Pompadour, who was the king's top mistress, and then

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became influential at court.

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And Mirabelle was influential, first of all, he had just written a massive book called

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A Friend of Man, which is a multi-part work which is incomprehensible, but the thing is

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it was very popular because it was written in a 17th century style.

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And here it is in the mid-18th century, the sky's running in a mid-17th century style,

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and so forth.

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It sort of charmed everybody.

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And it was a best-seller.

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So Mirabeau and Cantalon, Marquita Mirabeau, then organized a movement, I mean, Mirabeau

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actually being a K&A.

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And they set up their own school of thought, their own journals, their own doctrine, reviewed

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each other's books favorably, and so forth and so on.

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Also, it became sort of a cult of personality, the only guy thought the K&A was the top guy

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of all time.

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For example, his father's claim that K&A looked like Socrates, kind of difficult to

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The Confucius of Europe, the great sage of Europe, Europe by Wentzor Fawcett proclaimed

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that the three greatest inventions in the history of mankind are writing, money, and

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Kene's crazy diagram, the tabloid khanomik, the beginning of input-output analysis, the

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arrows.

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So, in any way, there were natural rights people and there were fair people.

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Unfortunately, the old deviationists were very much in favor of high agricultural prices.

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And one reason I think Keeney was a farmer and he owned farms, there were laissez-faire

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people according to their likes.

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And the strategic objective, the question is if you're a laissez-faire person, this

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came up in the late 17th century too, what do you do about it?

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Well obviously the thing is you have absolute monarchy by the time of France, the thing

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is you just convert the king, if you convert the king you establish laissez-faire from

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from the top, revolution from the top, so to speak, and that would be it.

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And so the strategic perspective of Ben-Elon and Turgot and Thucydides and Thucydides,

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convert the king, he will establish laissez-faire and that's it.