The following diagram contains text written along diagonal intersecting lines. Some of this text is inverted. Numerical values are followed by dotted horizontal lines to indicate tabular alignment.

ECONOMIC TABLE

Objects to consider: 1. Three types of Expenses; 2. Their source; 3. Their advances; 4. Their distribution; 5. Their effects; 6. Their reproduction; 7. Their relations to each other; 8. Their relations to the population; 9. To Agriculture; 10. To industry; 11. To commerce; 12. To the total mass of a Nation’s wealth.

PRODUCTIVE EXPENSES

relating to Agriculture, etc.

Annual advances
to produce a revenue of
600 livres original: "tt", referring to livres tournois, the currency of France until 1795. are 600 livres
600 produce net . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

EXPENSES OF REVENUE

the Tax being levied, it is shared between Productive Expenses and Sterile Expenses.

Annual
Revenue
of
600 livres

STERILE EXPENSES

relating to industry, etc.

Annual advances
for the Works of
Sterile Expenses, are
300 livres

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A "zig-zag" diagram depicts the flow of wealth between the productive and sterile classes through intersecting lines of distribution and reproduction. This represents the first systematic model of the circular flow of an economy.

Production half passes here Works, etc.

300 livres reproduce net . . . . . . . . . . . . . 300 livres . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 300 livres
half half passes here
150 reproduce net . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 150 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 150
half etc. half
75 reproduce net . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 75 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 75
37..10 reproduce net . . . . . . . . . . . . . 37..10 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 37..10
18..15 reproduce net . . . . . . . . . . . . . 18..15 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 18..15
9..7..6 reproduce net . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9..7..6 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9..7..6
4..13...9 reproduce net . . . . . . . . . . . . 4..13...9 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4..13...9
2..6..10 reproduce net . . . . . . . . . . . . 2..6..10 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2..6..10
1...3...5 reproduce net . . . . . . . . . . . . 1...3...5 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1...3...5
0...11...8 reproduce net . . . . . . . . . . . . 0...11...8 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 0...11...8
0...5..10 reproduce net . . . . . . . . . . . . 0...5..10 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 0...5..10
0...2..11 reproduce net . . . . . . . . . . . . 0...2..11 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 0...2..11
0....1...5 reproduce net . . . . . . . . . . . . 0....1...5 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 0....1...5

etc.

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TOTAL REPRODUCTION . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 600 livres of revenue; furthermore, the annual costs of 600 livres and the interest on the initial advances of the Husbandman Husbandman: In this context, the farmer or agricultural entrepreneur who provides the initial capital., of 300 livres which the earth restores. Thus the reproduction is 1500 livres including the revenue of 600 livres which is the basis of the calculation, setting aside the tax levied, and the advances required for its annual reproduction, etc. See the Explanation on the following page.