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Nicolas Baudeau
Nicolas Baudeau () (25 April 1730 - 1792) was a Catholic cleric, theologian and economist, who was born in Amboise, France.
Biography.
Baudeau became a monk at Chancelade Abbey, where he taught theology.
In 1765 he founded the first economics periodical to be published in France, "Éphémérides du citoyen", and was at first an opponent of the physiocrats. In 1766, however, he became a proponent of physiocracy. He died in Paris in 1792.
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men in this group of disciples were the elder Mirabeau (author of "L'Ami des hommes", 1756–60, and "Philosophie rurale", 1763), Nicolas Baudeau ("Introduction a la philosophie économique", 1771), ("De l'ordre social", 1777), André Morellet (best known by his controversy with Galiani on the freedom of the grain trade during the Flour War), Lemercier de La Rivière, and du Pont de Nemours. Adam Smith, during his stay on the continent with the young