So it's not surprising that the economists of the time, who were called the Physiocrats, actually put the center of their attention to farm labor.

所以那时经济学家，也被称为重农义者，他们实际上把注意力放在了农业劳动上。

The origins of laissez-faire are associated with the Physiocrats, a group of 18th-century French economists who believed that government policy should not interfere with the operation of natural economic laws.

自由放任义起源与重农义者有关，这是一群 18 世纪法国经济学家，他们认为政府政策不应干预自然经济运作。

Smith rejected government intervention in the economy to help merchants—the source of the name " mercantilism" —and instead advocated free markets along the lines of the French economists, the Physiocrats, who had coined the term laissez faire.

史密斯拒绝政府为帮助商人而干预经济——“重商义”这个名字来源——而是按照法国经济学家、重农义者路线提倡自由市场，重农义者创造了“自由放任”一词。