Depends Quote by William Stanley Jevons

“Value is based on perception, availability, necessity and desire.”

— Steven Redhead

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

— David Ricardo

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

Utility is the emotion pleading to be let into the house of pure reason and thereby enriching it.

— Dennis Lindley

“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

“We habitually value costs and benefits more highly in the near term than in the future”

— Daniel E. Lieberman

Our assessment of socio-economic worth is largely a sham. We scientists should not lend ourselves to it - though we routinely do. We should,…

— John Charles Polanyi

Utility is a metaphysical concept of impregnable circularity; utility is the quality in commodities that makes individuals want to buy them, and the fact…

— Joan Robinson

“a distinctive amount of a reasonable scarcity improves value greatly”

— Ernest Agyemang Yeboah

“An increased power of reflection like an increased knowledge only adds to man's affliction, and above all it is certain that for the individual…

— Søren Kierkegaard

Nothing has value in itself. The consumer confers value on it by seeking to acquire it. Hence, the value of a thing is never…

— Faustino Ballve

“So the middle-ground answer reminds us that reflection is continuous with practice, and our practice can go worse or better according to the value…

— Simon Blackburn