Quesnay’s Theory of Economic Growth and Decline

Steven Pressman

Chapter 11 in Economics as Worldly Philosophy, 1993, pp 305-321 from Palgrave Macmillan

Abstract: Abstract Beginning with Adam Smith, historians of economic thought have had high regard for Quesnay and the Physiocrats. The same, however, cannot be said of their economic model — the Tableau Economique. Well known is Eugen Duhring’s opinion that the Tableau is a mathematical fantasy comparable to squaring the circle.1 More recently, Paul Samuelson has equated the Tableau to ‘mystification and abracadabara’.2

Keywords: Agricultural Sector; Manufacturing Sector; Capita Consumption; Industrial Policy; Productive Sector (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 1993
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DOI: 10.1007/978-1-349-22572-9_11

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