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A correct theory is the first step towards improvement, by showing what we need and what we might accomplish.
William Stanley Jevons
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William Stanley Jevons
Age: 46 †
Born: 1835
Born: September 1
Died: 1882
Died: August 13
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There are a multitude of allied branches of knowledge connected with mans condition the relation of these to political economy is analogous to the connexion of mechanics, astronomy, optics, sound, heat, and every other branch more or less of physical science, with pure mathematics.
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Property is only another name for monopoly.
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One pound invested for five years gives the same result as five pounds invested for one year, the product being five pound years.
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Fertility of imagination and abundance of guesses at truth are among the first requisites of discovery but the erroneous guesses must almost of necessity be many times as numerous as those which prove well founded.
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It is clear that economics, if it is to be a science at all, must be a mathematical science.
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Repeated reflection and inquiry have led me to the somewhat novel opinion, that value depends entirely upon utility.
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All classes of society are trade unionists at heart, and differ chiefly in the boldness, ability, and secrecy with which they pursue their respective interests.
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There is no such thing as absolute cost of labour it is all a matter of comparison. Every one gets the most which he can for his exertions some can get little or nothing, because they have not sufficient strength, knowledge or ingenuity others get much, because they have, comparatively speaking, a monopoly of certain powers.
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Over-production is not possible in all branches of industry at once, but it is possible in some as compared to others.
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but, in reality, there is no such thing as an exact science.
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The point of equilibrium will be known by the criterion that an infinitely small amount of commodity exchanged in addition, at the same rate, will bring neither gain nor loss of utility.
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What capital I give for the spade merely replaces what the manufacturer had already invested in the expectation that the spade would be needed.
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I consider that interest is determined by the increment of produce which it enables a labourer to obtain, and is altogether independent of the total return which he receives for this labour.
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Among minor alterations, I may mention the substitution for the name political economy of the single convenient term economics. I cannot help thinking that it would be well to discard, as quickly as possible, the old troublesome double-worded name of our science.
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As a general rule, it is foolish to do just what other people are doing, because there are almost sure to be too many people doing the same thing.
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Science arises from the discovery of Identity amid Diversity.
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The difficulties of economics are mainly the difficulties of conceiving clearly and fully the conditions of utility.
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Value is the most invincible and impalpable of ghosts, and comes and goes unthought of, while the visible and dense matter remains as it was.
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Ina regular and constant employment the greatest result will always be gained by such a rate as allows a workman each day,or each week at the most, to recover all fatigue and recommence with an undiminished store of energy.
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By a commodity we shall understand any object, substance, action or service, which can afford pleasure or ward off pain.
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