“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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