Currents Quote by Stephen Jay Gould

My principal work now lies in tracing out the exact nature and conditions of utility. It seems strange indeed that economists have not bestowed…

— William Stanley Jevons

People want much the same things, but they have been formed by history to have a particular perception of the other.

— Desmond Tutu

It is clear that history differs from the other disciplines in having an approach and not an area of its own.

— Leonard Krieger

Repeated reflection and inquiry have led me to the somewhat novel opinion, that value depends entirely upon utility.

— William Stanley Jevons

“In the past half century, however, an impressive body of formal theory has been erected by mathematical statisticians and economists to help us reason…

— Herbert Simon

Utility then is not the measure of exchangeable value, although it is absolutely essential to it.

— David Ricardo

One of the basic lessons of history is that things can be different.

— Rutger Bregman

History belongs to the intercessors - those who believe and pray the future into being.

— Walter Wink

History does not move by leaps into unrelated novelty, but rather by the selective emphasis of aspects of its own immediate past.

— Julian Jaynes

If you want the present to be different from the past, study the past.

— Baruch Spinoza

The chief practical use of history is to deliver us from plausible historical analogies.

— James Bryce

Although the world has changed dramatically since 1843, we believe that the values that guide 'The Economist' are as relevant as ever.

— Zanny Minton Beddoes