Loic Charles wrote:  
> Actually, it was Quesnay not Turgot who was nicknamed the "European   
> Confucius" (not the "French Confucius") by his own disciples the   
> physiocrats.  
  
And Quesnay also sometimes gets labeled as the first   
"ecological economist," if not the first "environmental   
economist."  In any case, he certainly preceded Jevons.  
  
  
Barkley Rosser