“The calculus of utility aims at supplying the ordinary wants of man at the least cost of labour.”
William Stanley Jevons The Theory of Political Economy
Source: The Theory of Political Economy (1871), Chapter I, Introduction, p. 53.
“The simple means of making the race frugal is to supply the wants of no man and to leave every man the produce of his own labour.”
Source: Travels in the North of Germany (1820), p. 86, Vol. 2
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