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William Stanley Jevons Quotes: One pound invested for five years gives the same result as five pounds invested for one year, the product being five pound years.
         

One pound invested for five years gives the same result as five pounds invested for one year, the product being five pound years.


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Economists can never be free of from difficulties unless they will distinguish between a theory and the application of a theory.



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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.



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The theory which follows is entirely based on a calculus of pleasure and pain; and the object of economics is to maximize happiness by purchasing pleasure, as it were, at the lowest cost of pain.



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but, in reality, there is no such thing as an exact science.



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A correct theory is the first step towards improvement, by showing what we need and what we might accomplish.





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