Among minor alterations, I may mention the substitution for… - 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.

William Stanley Jevons

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William Stanley Jevons (1 September 1835 – 13 August 1882) was an English economist and logician.

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I protest against deference to any man, whether John Stuart Mill, or Adam Smith, or Aristotle, being allowed to check inquiry. Our science has become far too much a stagnant one, in which opinions rather than experience and reason are appealed to.

One of the first and most difficult steps in a science is to conceive clearly the nature of the magnitudes about which we are arguing.

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.

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