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.
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.