Jean Claude Marie Vincent de Gournay (1712–1759) was a French

France

The French Republic , The French Republic , The French Republic , (commonly known as France , is a unitary semi-presidential republic in Western Europe with several overseas territories and islands located on other continents and in the Indian, Pacific, and Atlantic oceans. Metropolitan France...

 economist

Economics

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 and intendant

Intendant

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 of commerce, one of the creators of the laissez faire, laissez passer

Laissez-faire

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economic philosophy. Together with François Quesnay

François Quesnay

François Quesnay was a French economist of the Physiocratic school. He is known for publishing the "Tableau économique" in 1758, which provided the foundations of the ideas of the Physiocrats...

 he headed the Physiocratic School.

"We have an illness in France which bids fair to play havoc with us; this illness is called bureaumania." [Bureaucracy] http://www.newworldencyclopedia.org/entry/Bureaucracy