Paul Émile de Puydt

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Paul Émile de Puydt (Born in Mons, Belgium, 1810 - Died in Mons, 1891) was a many-talented character. He published a lot as a botanist, as an economist and as a writer.

As a botanist, he notably wrote on orchids. The standard botanical author abbreviation De Puydt is applied to species he described.

As a political economist, he is known as the inventor of the term panarchy, the concept of people in the same jurisdiction having the freedom to choose which government to join, and governments having to compete for citizens.[1]

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  1. ^ P. E. de Puydt, Panarchy, first published in French in the Revue Trimestrielle, Bruxelles, July 1860.


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