Jacques Claude Marie Vincent de Gournay

Jacques Claude Marie Vincent de Gournay (French:

Gournay's father was Claude Vincent, a merchant in Saint-Malo as well as a secretary to the king.^[2] Gournay didn't write much, but had a great influence on French economic thought through his conversations with many important theorists. He became instrumental in popularizing the work of Richard Cantillon in France.^[3]

Gournay was appointed^[

Gournay's first name is often mistakenly given as "Jean", due to an error made by Turgot in his letter to Jean-François Marmontel known as In Praise of Gournay.^[6]

A street in Saint-Malo, the Rue Vincent-de-Gournay, takes its name from him.^[7]

References

1. ^
   ISBN 978-0-8160-5335-3
   . Retrieved 21 July 2012.
2. ^ Dugald Stewart; John Veitch (1877). The Collected Works of Dugald Stewart: Translations of the passages in foreign languages contained in the collected works of Dugald Stewart. With general index. 1860. T. Constable and co. [etc. ]. p. 238. Retrieved 21 July 2012.
3. ISBN 978-0-945466-48-2
   . Retrieved 21 July 2012.
4. ISBN 978-0-19-927525-0
   . Retrieved 21 July 2012. To symbolize a government run by insensitive rule-makers and rule-enforcers who did not care about the consequences of their actions, he coined the sarcastic term 'bureaucratie' - government by desks.
5. ISBN 978-0-87413-114-7
   . Retrieved 21 July 2012.
6. ISBN 978-1-933550-94-7
   . Retrieved 21 July 2012.
7. ^ Henri-Georges Gaignard (1973). Connaître Saint-Malo (in French). Fernand Lanore. p. 239. Retrieved 21 July 2012.

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