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William Stanley Jevons was a British economist born on September 1, 1835, and died on August 13, 1882. He was a pioneer in the theory of marginal utility and had a profound impact on the development of economics.

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“There are many portions of economical doctrine which appear to me as scientific in form as they are consonant with facts.”

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Book:The Theory of Political Economy

Source: The Theory of Political Economy

“A little experience is worth much argument; a few facts are better than any theory.”

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Book:Methods of Social Reform: And Other Papers

Source: Methods of Social Reform: And Other Papers

“As there are so many who talk prose without knowing it, or, again, who syllogize without having the least idea what a syllogism is, so economists have long been mathematicians without being aware of the fact.”

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Book:The Theory of Political Economy

Source: The Theory of Political Economy

“The conclusion to which I am ever more clearly coming is that the only hope of attaining a true system of economics is to fling aside,once and forever, the mazy and preposterous assumptions of the Ricardian school. Our English economists have been living in a fool's paradise. The truth is with the French school, and the sooner we recognize the fact, the better it will be for all the world, except perhaps the few writers who are far too committed to the old erroneous doctrines to allow for renunciation.”

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Book:Political Economy

Source: Political Economy

“You will perceive that economy, scientifically speaking, is a very contracted science; it is in fact a sort of vague mathematics which calculates the causes and effects of man's industry, and shows how it may be best applied.”

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Book:Letters & Journal of W. Stanley Jevons, Ed

Source: Letters & Journal of W. Stanley Jevons, Ed