The Economic Table

one can easily judge the changes that would occur in the annual reproduction of revenue, depending on whether sterile expenses or productive expenses prevail more or less over each other: one can, I say, easily judge this by the very changes that would occur in the order of the table. For suppose that the luxury of decoration This refers to spending on manufactured goods, furniture, and fashion, which the Physiocrats categorized as "sterile" because they did not reproduce the initial capital. increased by one-sixth for the Landowner, one-sixth for the Artisan, and one-sixth for the Cultivator, the reproduction of the 600-livre revenue would be reduced to 3500 livres. If, on the contrary, the increase in spending were directed to that same degree toward the consumption or the export of raw materials original: "denrées du cru", referring to local agricultural products., the reproduction of the 600-livre revenue would rise to 700 (800?) 500 livres, and so on progressively. One sees by this that the excess of luxury in decoration can very quickly ruin an opulent Nation with magnificence.

The 300 livres of revenue which, in the order of the table, have passed to productive expenses, yield advances in money there, which reproduce a net 300 livres that form part of the reproduction of the Landowner’s revenue. And through the rest of the distribution of the sums This strikethrough suggests a correction in the author's precise terminology regarding how money circulates back to the classes. that return to this same class, the total revenue is reproduced annually. These 300 livres, I say, which return first to the class of productive expenses through the sale of the produce that the Landowner buys there, are spent by the Farmer: half on the consumption of produce provided by this same class, and the other half on the maintenance of clothing, utensils, tools, etc., which he pays to the class of sterile expenses. And these are reborn with the net product.

The 300 livres of the Landowner’s revenue, which have passed to the class of sterile expenses, are spent by the Artisan,