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The most significant contribution of the physiocrats was their emphasis on productive work as the source of national wealth... Physiocrats viewed the production of goods and services as consumption of the agricultural surplus... The Physiocrats damned cities for their artificiality and praised more natural styles of living... but are generally referred to as physiocrats in order to distinguish them from the many schools of economic thought that followed them... The Tableau shows the reason why the Physiocrats disagreed with Cantillon about exporting food... plausible explanation is that the Physiocrats developed their theory in light of the actual situation of the French economy... The Physiocrats are at the beginning of the anti...

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