François Véron Duverger de Forbonnais (1722–1800) was a French political economist and contributor to the Encyclopédie ou Dictionnaire raisonné des sciences, des arts et des métiers.^[1][2]

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François Véron Duverger de Forbonnais was born in Le Mans and educated in Paris. After working for his father's textile business, he settled in Paris and became inspector-general of the French coinage in 1752.^[3]

He edited the Journal de l’agriculture, du commerce et des finances in the 1760s, and would help draw up Le Mans' noble Cahier de Doleances in 1789.

• Considérations sur les finances d'Espagne, 1753
• Elémens du commerce, 1754
• Questions sur le commerce des françois au Levant, 1755
• Essai sur l'admission des navires neutres dans nos colonies, 1756
• Recherches et considérations sur les finances de France depuis 1595 jusqu'en 1721, 1758
• Principes et observations oeconomiques, 1767