William Stanley Jevons Quotes About Economy

Quotes about: Economy

• There are a multitude of allied branches of knowledge connected with mans condition; the relation of these to political economy is analogous to the connexion of mechanics, astronomy, optics, sound, heat, and every other branch more or less of physical science, with pure mathematics.

  William Stanley Jevons

  Knowledge, Political, Sound

  William Stanley Jevons (1970). “The Theory of Political Economy”, Penguin (Non-Classics)

• 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

  Thinking, Names, Political

  William Stanley Jevons (1970). “The Theory of Political Economy”, Penguin (Non-Classics)

• You will perceive that economy, scientifically speaking, is a very contracted science; it is in fact a sort of vague mathematics which calculates the causes and effects of man's industry, and shows how it may be best applied.

  William Stanley Jevons

  Men, May, Causes

  William Stanley Jevons, Harriet A. Jevons (1886). “Letters & Journal of W. Stanley Jevons, Ed”

• It seems perfectly clear that Economy, if it is to be a science at all, must be a mathematical science. There exists much prejudice against attempts to introduce the methods and language of mathematics into any branch of the moral sciences. Most persons appear to hold that the physical sciences form the proper sphere of mathematical method, and that the moral sciences demand some other method-I know not what.

  William Stanley Jevons

  Science, Spheres, Prejudice

  William Stanley Jevons (1871). “The Theory of Political Economy”, p.3

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