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Nov 27, 2009
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phys•i•o•crat



Pronunciation: (fiz'ē-u-krat"), [key]
n.
one of a school of political economists who followed Quesnay in holding that an inherent natural order properly governed society, regarding land as the basis of wealth and taxation, and advocating a laissez-faire economy.

Random House Unabridged Dictionary, Copyright © 1997, by Random House, Inc., on Infoplease.

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