Pierre-Paul Lemercier de La Rivière de Saint-Médard
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Ordre naturel et essentiel des sociétés politiques, 1767
Pierre-Paul Le Mercier de La Rivière (10 March 1719 – 27 November 1801) was a French colonial administrator and physiocrat economist. Mercier was a councilor at the Parlement of Paris, intendant at Martinique in the West Indies (1759-1764), and noted advocate of Physiocracy.[1] In 1774, Mercier wrote a letter to Benjamin Franklin proposing to purchase 5,000 tons of Philadelphia flour.[2]
^Liana., Vardi (2012). The physiocrats and the world of the Enlightenment. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. ISBN978-1107021198. OCLC761858383.
^“To Benjamin Franklin from Paul-Pierre le Mercier de la Rivière, 21 September 1774,” Founders Online, National Archives, last modified February 1, 2018, http://founders.archives.gov/documents/Franklin/01-21-02-0162 . [Original source: The Papers of Benjamin Franklin, vol. 21, January 1, 1774, through March 22, 1775, ed. William B. Willcox. New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 1978, pp. 308–311.]
