different between physiocracy vs physiocrat

English

physio- +? -cracy

physiocracy (uncountable)

From French physiocrate, corresponding to physio- +? -crat.

physiocrat (plural physiocrats)

(economics, now historical) Any of a group of economists in 18th century France who believed that the government should not seek to influence the operation of natural economic laws. [from 18th c.]
- 2002, Colin Jones, The Greta Nation, Penguin 2003, p. 219:
  The Physiocrats espoused a professional service ethic and, in the interests of societal welfare, sought to establish laws of political economy and social relations.
- 2019, Leo Damrosch, The Club, Yale 2020, p. 319:
  Smith spent some time in Paris and got to know the physiocrats personally, notably François Quesnay and Anne-Robert-Jacques Turgot.

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