The Enlightenment and Society (Economics)

5. Dupont de Nemours second leading spokesman of the rising Physiocrats
6. Smith Scottish philosopher & economist who wrote Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth (1776) & believed economic liberty was the foundation of a natural economic system
7. the economic theory that trade generates wealth and is stimulated by the accumulation of profitable balances, which a government should encourage by means of protectionism
9. le Rond d’Alembert French mathematician, philosopher, and writer and another leader of the Encyclopedia (1717-1783)
10. Smith is founder & favors a limited role for government in economic life
11. theory the idea that history divided into four stages: age of hunters, age of shepherds, age of agriculture, age of commerce
12. economic reformers from France & argued that agriculture was the basis on which all economic production depended

1. Diderot Co-founder and contributor along with Jean to the Encyclopedia (1713-1784)
2. Acts acts that governed colonial trade established in 1651 that intended to preserve the wealth of the nation
3. Adam Smith believed the best way to encourage economic growth was to allow individuals to purse
4. Quesnay publisher of tableau economic & one of the french leading spokesperson of the rising Physiocrats
8. the publication of works combined into one being one of the greatest monuments of the Enlightenment and its most monumental undertaking in the realm of print culture
13. Wealth of Nations embraced an important theory of human social and economic development known as four-stage theory