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 foreve… - William Stanley Jevons

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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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About William Stanley Jevons

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

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Commerce is but a means to an end, the diffusion of civilization and wealth. To allow commerce to proceed until the source of civilization is weakened and overturned is like killing the goose to get the golden egg. Is the immediate creation of material wealth to be our only object?

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