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“Property is only another name for monopoly.”

William Stanley Jevons The Theory of Political Economy

Preface To The Second Edition, p. 29.
The Theory of Political Economy (1871)

“Logic is not only an exact science, but is the most simple and elementary of all sciences; it ought therefore undoubtedly to find some place in every course of education.”

William Stanley Jevons

Preface.
Elementary Lessons on Logic (1870)

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“One of the most important axioms is, that as the quantity of any commodity, for instance, plain food, which a man has to consume, increases, so the utility or benefit derived from the last portion used decreases in degree. The decrease in enjoyment between the beginning and the end of a meal may be taken as an example.”

William Stanley Jevons

William Stanley Jevons Letter to his brother (1 June 1860), published in Letters and Journal of W. Stanley Jevons (1886), edited by Harriet A. Jevons, his wife, p. 151 - 152.

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“Capital simply allows us to expend labour in advance.”

William Stanley Jevons The Theory of Political Economy

Source: The Theory of Political Economy (1871), Chapter VII, Theory of Capital, p. 187.

“Among minor alterations, I may mention the substitution for the name political economy of the single convenient term economics. I cannot help thinking that it would be well to discard, as quickly as possible, the old troublesome double-worded name of our science.”

William Stanley Jevons The Theory of Political Economy

Preface To The Second Edition, p. 8.
The Theory of Political Economy (1871)

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“I shall endeavor to show that induction is really the inverse process of deduction.”

William Stanley Jevons

Source: The Principles of Science: A Treatise on Logic and Scientific Method (1874) Vol. 1, p. 14

“There are many portions of economical doctrine which appear to me as scientific in form as they are consonant with facts.”

William Stanley Jevons The Theory of Political Economy

Preface To The First Edition, p. 3.
The Theory of Political Economy (1871)

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“Among minor alterations, I may mention the substitution for the name political economy of the single convenient term economics.”

William Stanley Jevons The Theory of Political Economy

I cannot help thinking that it would be well to discard, as quickly as possible, the old troublesome double-worded name of our science.
Preface To The Second Edition, p. 8.
The Theory of Political Economy (1871)

“One of the most important axioms is, that as the quantity of any commodity, for instance, plain food, which a man has to consume, increases, so the utility or benefit derived from the last portion used decreases in degree. The decrease in enjoyment between the beginning and the end of a meal may be taken as an example. And I assume that on an average, the ratio of utility is some continuous mathematical function of the quantity of commodity. This law of utility has, in fact, always been assumed by political economists under the more complex form and name of the Law of Supply and Demand. But once fairly stated in its simple form, it opens up the whole of the subject.”

William Stanley Jevons

Letter to his brother (1 June 1860), published in Letters and Journal of W. Stanley Jevons (1886), edited by Harriet A. Jevons, his wife, p. 151. https://archive.org/details/cu31924074297254/page/n168/mode/1up

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