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GUIDE TO THE ANALYSIS OF THE SPANISH TRANSLATION OF ANNE ROBERT JACQUES TURGOT’S REFLECTIONS ON THE PRODUCTION AND DISTRIBUTION OF WEALTH


VICTORIA CORREA MERLASSINO
UNIVERSITY OF BARCELONA
BARCELONA
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EXERCISE

What is the difference between the physiocrats and Turgot about the theory of production and distribution?

  • The difference was the development of the laws of diminishing returns.
  • He thought that the agriculture and manufacture were the only productive sectors and the
  • He thought that there should be a single tax on land and the physiocrats thought that the Landers should not pay any tax.
  • There is not any difference between them. Both make the error of assuming a fixed proportion of the various expenditures of different classes of people

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