Complication Quote by William Stanley Jevons

“We shall never have a science of economics unless we learn to discern the operation of law even among the most perplexing complications and apparent interruptions.” quote by William Stanley Jevons — Download Open image

“We shall never have a science of economics unless we learn to discern the operation of law even among the most perplexing complications and apparent interruptions.”

William Stanley Jevons

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The wind, as a direct motive power, is wholly inapplicable to a system of machine labour, for during a calm season the whole business of the country would be thrown out of gear. Before the era of steam-engines, windmills were tried for draining mines; but though they were powerful machines, they were very irregular, so that in a long tract…

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It isrequisite from time to time to remind one generation of the experience which led a former generation to important legislative actions.

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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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A little experience is worth much argument; a few facts are better than any theory.

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In any case I hold that there must arise a science of the development of economic forms and relations.

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