The Economic Table

productions, this class spends 600 livres and its advances term: "avances" refers to the working capital or upfront costs—such as seeds and labor—that a farmer must spend before seeing a harvest. of 600 livres are returned to it in cash through the sales it makes to the Landowner and to the class of sterile expenses In the Physiocratic view, the "sterile class" of artisans and merchants was not "useless," but they were seen as only transforming wealth rather than creating it from the earth like farmers.. One-eighth of the total of these productions enters into foreign trade as exports, either as raw materials and food for the workers of the country who sell their works to other Nations, either | or in which the Merchant's sales counterbalance the purchases of merchandise and the gold and silver bullion original: "matière d'or & d'argent", referring to precious metals used as the basis for currency. drawn from abroad.

Such is the distributive order of the consumption of local produce original: "productions du cru", referring to agricultural goods grown directly from the soil. among the classes of citizens, and such is the idea one must form regarding the use and extent of foreign trade for a flourishing agricultural Nation.

The reciprocal turnover term: "débit" refers to the flow of goods and money as they are sold and consumed. from one class of expenditure to the other distributes the revenue of 600 livres on both sides; which gives 300 livres to each side, besides the advances which are preserved. The Landowner subsists through the 600 livres that he spends. The 300 livres distributed to each class of expenditure, added to the proceeds of the tax, the tithe term: "dixme" (tithe) was a mandatory contribution, usually one-tenth of agricultural produce, paid to support the Church., etc., can support one man in both: thus 600 livres of revenue and its associated branches can support three men as heads of families. At this rate, 600 million in revenue can support three million families, estimated at four persons of all ages per family.

The costs provided by the annual advances of the class of productive expenses, which are also reborn The author uses "renaiſſent" (reborn) to emphasize the cyclical nature of agriculture, where each year's harvest provides the seeds for the next. each year, and of which about half is spent on feed for livestock and the other half on the payment of wages for the men employed in the works of this class, add