Paul Émile de Puydt (1810–1891), a writer whose contributions included work in botany and economics, was born and died in Mons, Belgium.
As a botanist, he notably wrote on orchids.[1] 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, [2] similar to later forms of anarchism, and to the notion of competitive government found earlier in the writings of the Belgian economist Gustave de Molinari.
“Paul Émile de Puydt,” Wikipedia
