 From the Encyclopedie to the Tableau economique: Quesnay on freedom of grain trade and economic growthThe European Journal of the History of Economic Thought, 2000, vol. 7, issue 1, 1-21 Abstract: This paper investigates the evolution of Quesnay's economic thought between his Encyclopedie articles and the first edition of the Tableau economique. The rediscovery of a forgotten piece Quesnay included in an agricultural treatise — the Essai sur l'amelioration des terres — leads us to reconsider the origins of the first edition of the Tableau. This forgotten piece of writing is the missing link between Quesnay's first economic writings and the Tableau. It improves on the theory of grain trade liberalization Quesnay presented in his first writings on two levels. First, it reconstructs of his previous argument in order to give it a more coherent shape. Second, this text complements the Encyclopedie articles by a growth mechanism. Through a reconstruction of Quesnay's growth mechanism, we show that his argument is a significant analytical step toward the first edition of the Tableau. Keywords: Francois Quesnay Grain Trade Tableau Economique Growth Theory Physiocracy Free Trade (search for similar items in EconPapers) Downloads: (external link) Related works: Export reference: BibTeX RIS (EndNote, ProCite, RefMan) HTML/Text Persistent link: https://EconPapers.repec.org/RePEc:taf:eujhet:v:7:y:2000:i:1:p:1-21 Ordering information: This journal article can be ordered from Access Statistics for this article The European Journal of the History of Economic Thought is currently edited by José Luís Cardoso More articles in The European Journal of the History of Economic Thought from Taylor & Francis Journals |
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