“Over-production is not possible in all branches of industry at once, but it is possible in some as compared to others.”

— William Stanley Jevons , The Theory of Political Economy

Source: The Theory of Political Economy (1871), Chapter V, Theory of Labour, p. 172.

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English economist and logician 1835–1882

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