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Transcribing the Tableau Économique: Input-Output Analysis à la Quesnay

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  11 June 2009

Albert E. Steenge  and
Richard van den Berg
Albert E. Steenge
Affiliation:
University of Twente, School of Business, Public Administration and Technology
Richard van den Berg
Affiliation:
Institute for Governance Studies, P.O.B. 217, 7500 AE Enschede, The Netherlands, and Kingston University, Business School, Kingston-Upon-Thames, KT2 7LB, UK.
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Since its publication in 1955, Almarin Phillips' article “The Tableau Économique as a Simple Leontief Model” has inspired an interesting line of interpretation of the arithmetical schemes presented two centuries earlier by François Quesnay. Subsequent attempts to represent the Tableaux économiques in the form of Input-Output transcriptions by Shlomo Maital (1972), Bernhard Korte (1972), Tibor Barna (1975), and Paul Samuelson (1986), among others, have underlined the brilliance of the French doctor's formal conception of the economy as a reproductive system.

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Journal of the History of Economic Thought , Volume 29 , Issue 3 , September 2007 , pp. 331 - 358
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Copyright © The History of Economics Society 2007

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