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The Tableau économique (French pronunciation: [tablo ekɔnɔmik]) or Economic Table is an economic model first described by French economist François Quesnay in 1758, which laid the foundation of the physiocratic school of economics.
Tableau, another term for a table of data, particularly: Cryptographic tableau, or tabula recta, used in manual cipher systems; Division tableau, a table used to do long division; Method of analytic tableaux (also semantic tableau or truth tree), a technique of automated theorem proving in logic
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François Quesnay (/ k eɪ ˈ n eɪ /; French: [fʁɑ̃swa kɛnɛ]; 4 June 1694 – 16 December 1774) was a French economist and physician of the Physiocratic school. [1] He is known for publishing the "Tableau économique" (Economic Table) in 1758, which provided the foundations of the ideas of the Physiocrats. [2]
a close relationship or connection; an affair. The French meaning is broader; liaison also means "bond"' such as in une liaison chimique (a chemical bond) lingerie a type of female underwear. littérateur an intellectual (can be pejorative in French, meaning someone who writes a lot but does not have a particular skill). [36] louche
Paris Olympics organizers apologized to anyone who was offended by a tableau that evoked Leonardo da Vinci’s “The Last Supper” during the glamorous opening ceremony, but defended the concept ...
A tableau vivant (French: [tablo vivɑ̃]; often shortened to tableau; pl. tableaux vivants; French for 'living picture') is a static scene containing one or more actors or models. They are stationary and silent, usually in costume, carefully posed, with props and/or scenery , and may be theatrically illuminated .
Physiocracy (French: physiocratie; from the Greek for "government of nature") is an economic theory developed by a group of 18th-century Age of Enlightenment French economists. They believed that the wealth of nations derived solely from the value of "land agriculture" or " land development " and that agricultural products should be highly ...