[90] In his seventh note to the _Tableau Économique_, following up his
arguments against the mercantilist theory of money as identical with
wealth, Quesnay says: 'The bulk of money in a nation cannot increase
unless this reproduction itself increases; otherwise, an increase in the
bulk of money would inevitably be prejudicial to the annual production
of wealth.... Therefore we must not judge the opulence of states on the
basis of a greater or smaller quantity of money: thus a stock of money,
equal to the income of the landowners, is deemed much more than enough
for an agricultural nation where the circulation proceeds in a regular
manner, and where commerce takes place in confidence and full liberty'
(_Analyse du Tableau Économique_, ed. Oncken, pp. 324-5).
[91] Marx (_Capital_, vol. ii, p. 482) takes the money spent directly by
the capitalists of Department II as the starting point of this act of
exchange. As Engels rightly says in his footnote, this does not affect
the final result of circulation, but the assumption is not the correct
condition of circulation within society. Marx himself has given a better
exposition in _Capital_, vol. ii, pp. 461-2.
[92] _Capital_, vol. ii, p. 548.
[93] _Capital_, vol. ii, p. 550.
[94] Ibid., p. 551.
[95] Ibid., p. 572.
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