Editing Physiocracy (section)

== ''Tableau économique'' ==
The ''[[Tableau économique]]'' or ''Economic Table'' is an economic model first described by [[François Quesnay]] in 1759, which laid the foundation of the physiocrats’ economic theories.<ref name="Spiegel 1983 p.189">Henry William Spiegel (1983) ''The Growth of Economic Thought'', Revised and Expanded Edition, Duke University Press. pp. 189, 195–96</ref> It also contains the origins of modern ideas on the circulation of wealth and the nature of interrelationships in the economy.<ref name=":1" />

The model Quesnay created consisted of three economic agents: the "proprietary" class consisted only of landowners; the "productive" class consisted of agricultural laborers; the "sterile" class was made up of artisans and merchants. The flow of production and cash between the three classes originated with the proprietary class because they owned the land and bought from both of the other classes.