Takashi Yagi
François Quesnay&s;s Tableau Économique (1st ed. 1758, 2nd ed. 1759, 3rd ed. 1759 1 ) depicts a stationary state of an economy which reproduces the same amounts of outputs of agricultural products and manufactured goods every year. Quesnay (1759) writes about cases wherein landowners change the share of expenditure on agricultural products in the total expenditure. The case wherein landowners spend less revenue on agricultural products but more on luxury manufactured goods is called ‘ luxe de décolation ’ (luxury in the way of ornamentation), 2 and the reverse is termed ‘ luxe de subsistence ’ (luxury in the way of subsistence). 3 Mirabeau (1760) extended Quesnay&s;s Tableau to the cases of luxe de décolation and luxe de subsistence. 4 Woog (1950) terms Mirabeau&s;s Tableau of such cases ‘ Tableau in disequilibrium’, compared with the original Tableau (the Tableau in equilibrium), which depicts a simple reproduction of an economy. In a later study, Pressman (1994) uses the term ‘dynamic version of the Tableau ’ or ‘ dynamic Tableau ’. We consider the interpretations proposed after Mirabeau&s;s work to be the expenditure view of the Tableau Économique .