Abstract: Before Rosa Luxemburg dared to criticize them, Marx’ tableaux économique, his reproduction schemes, published for the first time in 1885 in volume II of Capital, edited by Friedrich Engels, nearly escaped the attention of the academic public. Tugan-Baranowsky referred to them, actually made use of them in his theory of crisis in 1899, but before Rosa Luxemburg there was no debate whatsoever with respect to the Marxian reproduction schemes. More