ISBN : 9782296966031
NOBILITY AND ROYAUME AGRICOLE : THE TABLEAU ÉCONOMIQUE AS A POLITICAL UTOPIA
Jean Cartelier
Quesnay's Tableau économique has raised more interest and received more comments from historians of economic thought than from historians of political thought. There is nothing really strange in that observation: the Tableau is the first full-fledged quantitative and abstract representation of society, described as a network of money flows linking three classes. It would not really be absurd to think of the Tableau as the true genesis of economics. That is not to say that nothing valuable was produced before Quesnay....