The Economic Table

etc. lead up to a conclusion with regard to the productive power of the country as a whole on condition that certain specified and existent obstacles are not encountered.

These views, their novelty and influence, constitute one of the most important chapters in the history of economic and financial theory. For a fuller account reference should be made to Dr. Bauer’s forthcoming article in the Economic Journal for March 1895 (No. 17, Vol. v.), and to the authorities there quoted.

The Economic Table original: Tableau Oeconomique is perhaps best known to English readers from the reference which Adam Smith Adam Smith (1723–1790) was the Scottish philosopher known as the "Father of Economics," whose work The Wealth of Nations was deeply influenced by the French Physiocrats. makes to it in the Wealth of Nations and his quotation of the extravagant phrases of Mirabeau, who declared that the three great inventions in the history of the world “which have principally given stability to political societies” are the inventions of handwriting, of money, and the Economic Table original: Tableau Oeconomique.

A work which has in its time been regarded as the source and origin original: fons et origo of scientific economics is fitly reproduced in the present bi-centenary year of Quesnay’s birth. It will be remembered that had Quesnay lived long enough it was Adam Smith’s intention to dedicate to him the Wealth of Nations. The present publication can therefore hardly fail to interest the members of the British Economic Association.

The best thanks of the Association are due to Dr. Bauer, to Monsieur E. Castelot, its correspondent in Paris, for his care in supervising the photography of the manuscripts by M. Sauvanaud, and to Prof. H. S. Foxwell for superintending the engraving carried out by Mr. Dew-Smith of Cambridge.