Preface To The Second Edition, p. 9.
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Source: The Theory of Political Economy (1871), Chapter IV, Theory of Exchange, p. 108.
“The calculus of utility aims at supplying the ordinary wants of man at the least cost of labour.”
Source: The Theory of Political Economy (1871), Chapter I, Introduction, p. 53.
“A correct theory is the first step towards improvement”
Source: The Theory of Political Economy (1871), Chapter I, Introduction, p. 44.
Context: A correct theory is the first step towards improvement, by showing what we need and what we might accomplish.
“Q, which would include quantity of space or time or force, in fact almost any kind of quantity.”
Preface To The Second Edition, p. 6.
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Context: A correspondent, Captain Charles Christie R. E., to whom I have shown these sections after they were printed, objects reasonably enough that commodity should not have been represented by M, or Mass, but by some symbol, for instance Q, which would include quantity of space or time or force, in fact almost any kind of quantity.
“but, in reality, there is no such thing as an exact science.”
Source: The Theory of Political Economy (1871), Chapter I, Introduction, p. 40.
“I do not write for mathematicians, nor as a mathematician, but as an economist”
Preface To The Second Edition, p. 7.
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Context: In short, I do not write for mathematicians, nor as a mathematician, but as an economist wishing to convince other economists that their science can only be satisfactorily treated on an explicitly mathematical basis.
Source: The Theory of Political Economy (1871), Chapter VII, Theory of Capital, p. 206.
Source: The Theory of Political Economy (1871), Chapter III, Theory of Utility, p. 65.
Source: The Theory of Political Economy (1871), Chapter I, Introduction, p. 51.
William Stanley Jevons, The Theory of Political Economy (1871). Preface To The Second Edition, p. 14.
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Source: The Theory of Political Economy (1871), Chapter III, Theory of Utility, p. 82.
Source: The Theory of Political Economy (1871), Chapter V, Theory of Labour, p. 172.
“It is clear that economics, if it is to be a science at all, must be a mathematical science.”
Source: The Theory of Political Economy (1871), Chapter I, Introduction, p. 38.
Source: The Theory of Political Economy (1871), Chapter V, Theory of Labour, p. 173.
Source: The Theory of Political Economy (1871), Chapter VII, Theory of Capital, p. 190.
Preface To The Second Edition, p. 29.
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Source: The Theory of Political Economy (1871), Chapter III, Theory of Utility, p. 61.
Source: The Theory of Political Economy (1871), Chapter VII, Theory of Capital, p. 191.
Source: The Theory of Political Economy (1871), Chapter VII, Theory of Capital, p. 185.
