How does Quesnay's focus on agriculture relate to modern environmental economics?
My insistence that the land and its cultivation are the ultimate source of wealth resonates with contemporary concerns about sustainability and resource depletion. Environmental economics today grapples with the finite nature of natural capital and the imperative to manage resources responsibly. My work, by centering the agrarian base, implicitly acknowledges the dependency of all economic activity on the earth's bounty and the potential consequences when that foundation is neglected or overexploited.
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