ECONOMIC TABLE

original title: "Tableau Oeconomique"

FRANÇOIS QUESNAY

FIRST PRINTED IN 1758 AND NOW REPRODUCED IN FACSIMILE

FOR THE BRITISH ECONOMIC ASSOCIATION

LONDON

1894

François Quesnay (1694–1774) was the leading figure of the Physiocrats, a group of Enlightenment thinkers who believed that agriculture was the sole source of a nation's wealth. The "Tableau Oeconomique" is famous for being one of the first works to describe the circular flow of wealth and goods within an economy using a diagrammatic approach.