Quesnay (France, 1694–1774) Some literature: Tableau économique, 1758 Encyclopédie, ou dictionnaire raisonné des sciences, des arts et des métiers (together with others), 1751–1772 (Encyclopaedia, or Reasoned Dictionary of the Sciences, Arts, and Trades The Encyclopedia of Diderot & d'Alembert Collaborative Translation Project) Voltaire Voltaire (France, 1694–1778) Some literature: Lettres Philosophiques sur les Anglais, 1734 (Philosophical Letters on the English) Encyclopédie, ou dictionnaire raisonné des sciences, des arts et des métiers (together with others), 1751–1772 (Encyclopaedia, or Reasoned Dictionary of the Sciences, Arts, and Trades The Encyclopedia of Diderot & d'Alembert Collaborative Translation Project) Essai sur l'histoire génerale et sur les moeurs et l'espirit des nations, 1756 (Essay on the Manner and Spirit of Nations and on the Principal Occurrences in History) Traité sur la Tolérance à l'occasion de la mort de Jean Calas, 1763 (Treatise on Toleration In Connection with the Death of Jean Calas) Dictionnaire Philosophique, 1764 (Philosophical Dictionary) Jean-Jacques Rousseau Jean-Jacques Rousseau (Switzerland, 1712–1778) Some literature: Discourse on Inequality, 1755 On the Social Contract, 1762 Denis Diderot Denis Diderot (France, 1713–1784) Some literature: Encyclopédie, ou dictionnaire raisonné des sciences, des arts et des métiers (together with others), 1751–1772 (Encyclopaedia, or Reasoned Dictionary of the Sciences, Arts, and Trades The Encyclopedia of Diderot & d'Alembert Collaborative Translation Project) Jean le Rond d'Alembert Jean le Rond d'Alembert (France, 1717–1783) Some literature: Encyclopédie, ou dictionnaire raisonné des sciences, des arts et des métiers (together with others), 1751–1772 (Encyclopaedia, or Reasoned Dictionary of the Sciences, Arts, and Trades The Encyclopedia of Diderot & d'Alembert Collaborative Translation Project) Richard Price Richard Price (United Kingdom, 1723–1791) Some literature: Appeal to the Public on the Subject of the National Debt, 1771 Observations on Reversionary Payments, 1771 Observations on Civil Liberty and the Justice and Policy of the War with America, 1776 Anders Chydenius Anders Chydenius (Finland (then a part of the Swedish realm), 1729–1803) His book Den Nationale Winsten (engl. The National Gain) proposed roughly same the ideas as Adam Smith's Wealth of Nations, a decade earlier, including foundations of liberalism and capitalism and (roughly) the invisible hand. He demanded complete economic and individual freedom, including the freedom of religion (although he was a priest), worker's rights to freely move and choose their professions and employers, the freedom of speech and trade and abolitions of all privileges and price and wage controls. He was also a member of the Swedish four-estates parliament, elected three times