Charles, Loic - In: The European Journal of the History of Economic Thought 10 (2003) 4, pp. 527-550
This article looks at the history of the Tableau Economique from a visual point of view. It shows that Quesnay invented the Tableau to formalize visually his economic theory, and that he used different versions of the Tableau ('Zigzag', 'Precis' and 'Formule') for reasons of visual rhetorics....