The Economic Table

300 million in expenses which can, with the share of other annexed products, support another million heads of families.

Thus, these 900 million—setting aside original: "abstraction faite," meaning to exclude from the calculation for a moment taxes, tithes, and interest on the annual advances and original advances term: "avances" refers to the capital a farmer must invest. "Original advances" are one-time costs like equipment and livestock; "annual advances" are recurring costs like seed and labor. of the Farmer—which would be reborn annually from the landed estates, could support sixteen million people of all ages, in accordance with this order of circulation and distribution of annual revenues.

By circulation, we mean here first-hand purchases paid for by the income which is shared among all classes of men—excluding trade original: "distraction faite du commerce", which multiplies sales and purchases without multiplying the actual quantity of things, and which is nothing more than an increase in sterile expenses In Physiocratic theory, "sterile expenses" refer to manufacturing and trade, which they believed only transformed or moved wealth rather than creating new wealth from the earth..

The wealth of the Productive Expenses class of a Nation where the Landowners have a constant revenue of 600 million can be evaluated as follows.

A revenue of 600 million for the Landowners assumes, in addition, 300 million in taxes and 150 million for the tithe term: "dixme" or tithe was a mandatory payment, usually a tenth of the harvest, to support the Church. of the annual product (total costs included), which are collected on the parts of the culture subject to tithes. This forms a total of 1 billion 50 million, including income. Furthermore, the reproduction of 1 billion 50 million in annual advances, and 110 million in interest for these advances at 10 percent: the grand total is . . . 2,210,000,000.

In a kingdom where there are many vineyards, woods, meadows, etc., only about two-thirds of these 2 billion 210 million would be obtained through the work of the plow. This portion would require, in a healthy state of large-scale farming term: "grande culture" refers to efficient, capital-intensive farming usually performed with horse-drawn plows rather than oxen. performed by horses,