William Stanley Jevons Quotes
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William Stanley Jevons Famous Quotes & Sayings
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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.
The difficulties of economics are mainly the difficulties of conceiving clearly and fully the conditions of utility.
Fertility of imagination and abundance of guesses at the truth are among the first requisites of discovery.
Repeated reflection and inquiry have led me to the somewhat novel opinion, that value depends entirely upon utility.
The whole question of the steam engine is one of economy. It's development consist of nothing but the quest for greater efficiency.
It isrequisite from time to time to remind one generation of the experience which led a former generation to important legislative actions.
In any case I hold that there must arise a science of the development of economic forms and relations.
Economists can never be free of from difficulties unless they will distinguish between a theory and the application of a theory.
There are many portions of economical doctrine which appear to me as scientific in form as they are consonant with facts.
A correct theory is the first step towards improvement, by showing what we need and what we might accomplish.
One pound invested for five years gives the same result as five pounds invested for one year, the product being five pound years.
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.
What capital I give for the spade merely replaces what the manufacturer had already invested in the expectation that the spade would be needed.
One of the first and most difficult steps in a science is to conceive clearly the nature of the magnitudes about which we are arguing.