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William Stanley Jevons Quotes: What capital I give for the spade merely replaces what the manufacturer had already invested in the expectation that the spade would be needed.
         

What capital I give for the spade merely replaces what the manufacturer had already invested in the expectation that the spade would be needed.


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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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