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

— William Stanley Jevons, The Theory of Political Economy

Source: The Theory of Political Economy (1871), Chapter VII, Theory of Capital, p. 188.

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