An early philosopher who described development as a process whereby people move from a rural, nomadic society with little economic surplus to an agricultural society with greater economic surplus, facilitating population growth was the: (a)physiocrat François Quesnay, who asserted that land generates surplus net product

 An early philosopher who described development as a process whereby people move from a rural, nomadic society with little economic surplus to an agricultural society with greater economic surplus, facilitating population growth was the: (a)physiocrat François Quesnay, who asserted that land generates surplus net product. (b) Islamic cleric Ibn Khaldun, who condemned interest as usury. (c) medieval scholastic Thomas Aquinas, who developed the modern theory of overpopulation. (d) Chinese advisor to the Emperor Guan Zhong, who made a fortune speculating in grain.