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Tableaux and Systèmes. Early French Contributions to Linear Production Models

“…In this context it is worth considering the question what motivated Quesnay to use pictures. Charles (2003Charles ( , 2004 puts forward interesting views on this point. He argues that Quesnay consciously decided against mathematical expressions when constructing his visual aids for the study of economic circulation.…”

Figures of mockery. The cultural disqualification of physiocracy (1760–1790)

“…Worse still how can one not behold a pack of lies, a fairy tale for "fools"? This is what Linguet wants to magnify when he makes explicit reference to a particular property of the Tableau economique that was neglected by commentators, with the recent exception of Lo€ ıc Charles (2003Charles ( , 2004, that of its clearly visual character.…”

The Changing Place of Visual Representation in Economics: Paul Samuelson Between Principle and Strategy, 1941–1955

“…1 Their contributions allowed for a new focus on the history of science, presenting seemingly familiar episodes in a new fashion. Following this trend, some historians of economics have begun to interest themselves in visual representations, stressing their importance from the emergence of political economy in the eighteenth century to the making of nineteenth-century neoclassical economics (Charles 2003(Charles , 2004Maas and Morgan 2002;Cook 2005). However, with the exception of Derobert and Theriot (2003) and De Marchi (2003), who studied the uses of a number of diagrams in postwar economics, little has been written on that highly significant period for the discipline.…”

“… 2 Charles (2003) and (2004) both deal with the visual history of Quesnay’s Tableau Économique . Maas and Morgan (2002) and Cook (2005) explore the visual aspect of neoclassical economic theory and it is noticeable that both were published in history of science journals.…”