Quote by William Stanley Jevons

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.

Among minor alterations, I may mention the substitution for

Summary

This quote suggests the idea of replacing the term "political economy" with the term "economics" as a more convenient and simplified alternative. The author contends that using a single word would be beneficial in order to discard the complexity and inconvenience of the old double-worded name of the science of economics.

Topics

By William Stanley Jevons

Liked the quote? Share it with your friends.

Random Quotations

To know the pains of power, we must go to those who have it;

To know the pains of power, we must go to those who have it; to know its pleasures, we must go to those who are seeking it. The pains of power are real; its pleasures imaginary.

Charles Caleb Colton

A man's own good breeding is the best security against other

A man's own good breeding is the best security against other people's ill manners.

Lord Chesterfield

I think of many people and no one as a muse. I love the way

I think of many people and no one as a muse. I love the way Sofia looks always, and I love the way Kim looks always. Fashion may be part of their world, but it's not their whole life. It's not everything.

Life Love People Muses

Gracefulness is to the body what understanding is to the min

Gracefulness is to the body what understanding is to the mind.

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

Shouldn't someone tag Mr Kennedy's bold new imaginative prog

Shouldn't someone tag Mr Kennedy's bold new imaginative program with its proper age Under the tousled boyish haircut is still old Karl Marx-first launched a century ago. There is nothing new in the idea of a government being Big Brother.

The lovesick, the betrayed, and the jealous all smell alike.

The lovesick, the betrayed, and the jealous all smell alike.

Sidonie Gabrielle Colette

If you look for truth, you may find comfort in the end; if y

If you look for truth, you may find comfort in the end; if you look for comfort you will not get either comfort or truth only soft soap and wishful thinking to begin, and in the end, despair.

I have almost reached the regrettable conclusion that the Ne

I have almost reached the regrettable conclusion that the Negro's great stumbling block in the stride toward freedom is not the White Citizen's Councilor or the Ku Klux Klanner, but the white moderate, who is more devoted to 'order' than to justice who prefers a negative peace which is the absence of tension to a positive peace which is the presence of justice who constantly says 'I agree with you in the goal you seek, but I cannot agree with your methods of direct action' who paternalistically believes he can set the timetable for someone else's freedom who lives by a mythical concept of time and who constantly advises the Negro to wait for a 'more convenient season.'

Martin Luther King Jr.

When Man evolved Pity, he did a queer thing -- deprived hims

When Man evolved Pity, he did a queer thing -- deprived himself of the power of living life as it is without wishing it to become something different.

John Galsworthy

There is no failure except in no longer trying.

There is no failure except in no longer trying.

If you follow a religion but are devoid of the Love of God,

If you follow a religion but are devoid of the Love of God, then those that do not follow a religion but have the love of God are better.

Riaz Ahmed Gohar Shahi

Individual science fiction stories may seem as trivial as ev

Individual science fiction stories may seem as trivial as ever to the blinder critics and philosophers of today -- but the core of science fiction, its essence has become crucial to our salvation if we are to be saved at all.

Science Fiction