“Every one gets the most which he can for his exertions”

— William Stanley Jevons, The Theory of Political Economy

Preface To The Second Edition, p. 31.
The Theory of Political Economy (1871)
Context: There is no such thing as absolute cost of labour; it is all a matter of comparison. Every one gets the most which he can for his exertions; some can get little or nothing, because they have not sufficient strength, knowledge or ingenuity; others get much, because they have, comparatively speaking, a monopoly of certain powers.

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English economist and logician 1835–1882

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