All classes of society are trade unionists at heart, and differ chiefly in the boldness, ability, and secrecy with which they pursue… — William Stanley Jevons Ability Copy Share Image
What capital I give for the spade merely replaces what the manufacturer had already invested in the expectation that the spade would… — William Stanley Jevons Expectations Copy Share Image
“The more refined and intellectual our needs become, the less they are capable of satiety.” — William Stanley Jevons Copy Share Image
The wind, as a direct motive power, is wholly inapplicable to a system of machine labour, for during a calm season the… — William Stanley Jevons Calm Copy Share Image
Economists can never be free of from difficulties unless they will distinguish between a theory and the application of a theory. — William Stanley Jevons Application Copy Share Image
It isrequisite from time to time to remind one generation of the experience which led a former generation to important legislative actions. — William Stanley Jevons Action Copy Share Image
Ina regular and constant employment the greatest result will always be gained by such a rate as allows a workman each day,or… — William Stanley Jevons Constant Copy Share Image
By a commodity we shall understand any object, substance, action or service, which can afford pleasure or ward off pain. — William Stanley Jevons Action Copy Share Image
A little experience is worth much argument; a few facts are better than any theory. — William Stanley Jevons Argument Copy Share Image
As there are so many who talk prose without knowing it, or, again, who syllogize without having the least idea what a… — William Stanley Jevons Economist Copy Share Image
In any case I hold that there must arise a science of the development of economic forms and relations. — William Stanley Jevons Arise Copy Share Image
The point of equilibrium will be known by the criterion that an infinitely small amount of commodity exchanged in addition, at the… — William Stanley Jevons Amount Copy Share Image
It is clear that Economics, if it is to be a science at all, must be a mathematical science ... simply because… — William Stanley Jevons Aids Copy Share Image
I am convinced that it is impossible to expound the methods of induction in a sound manner, without resting them upon the… — William Stanley Jevons Ability Copy Share Image
When quite young I can remember I had no thought or wish of surpassing others. I was rather taken with a liking… — William Stanley Jevons Art Copy Share Image
Among minor alterations, I may mention the substitution for the name political economy of the single convenient term economics. I cannot help… — William Stanley Jevons Alterations Copy Share Image
One of the most important axioms is, that as the quantity of any commodity, for instance, plain food, which a man has… — William Stanley Jevons Axioms Copy Share Image
The calculus of utility aims at supplying the ordinary wants of man at the least cost of labour. — William Stanley Jevons Aim Copy Share Image
An isolated man like Alexander Selkirk might feel the benefit of a stock of provisions, tools and other means of facilitating industry,… — William Stanley Jevons Benefits Copy Share Image
PLEASURE and pain are undoubtedly the ultimate objects of the calculus of economics. To satisfy our wants to the utmost with the… — William Stanley Jevons Amount Copy Share Image
Some of the gold possessed by the Romans is doubtless mixed with what we now possess; and some small part of it… — William Stanley Jevons Gold Copy Share Image
I consider that interest is determined by the increment of produce which it enables a labourer to obtain, and is altogether independent… — William Stanley Jevons Determined Copy Share Image
Labour once spent has no influence on the future value of any article; it isgone and lost for ever. In commerce bygones… — William Stanley Jevons Articles Copy Share Image
We shall never have a science of economics unless we learn to discern the operation of law even among the most perplexing… — William Stanley Jevons Complication Copy Share Image
I feel quite unable to adopt the opinion that the moment goods pass into the possession of the consumer they cease altogether… — William Stanley Jevons Attributes Copy Share Image
