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George Pope Morris
George Pope Morris

George Pope Morris was an influential American editor and publisher, born on October 10, 1802, and died on July 6, 1864. He was a prominent figure in the 19th-century American newspaper industry, serving as the editor of The New York Tribune and significantly impacting the development of journalism during his time. more

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“One of the most important axioms is, that as the quantity of any commodity, for instance, plain food, which a man has to consume, increases, so the utility or benefit derived from the last portion used decreases in degree. The decrease in enjoyment between the beginning and the end of a meal may be taken as an example.”

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Book:Papers and correspondence of William Stanley Jevons
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“I used to think I should like to be a bookbinder or bookseller it seemed to me a most delightful trade and I wished or thought of nothing better. More lately I thought I should be a minister, it seemed so serious and useful a profession, and I entered but little into the merits of religion and the duties of a minister. Every one dissuaded me from the notion, and before I arrived at any age to require a real decision, science had claimed me.”

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Author:William Stanley Jevons
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“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.”

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Book:The Theory of Political Economy
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