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— William Stanley Jevons"The calculus of utility aims at supplying the ordinary wants of man at the least cost of labour."
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The theory which follows is entirely based on a calculus of pleasure and pain; and the object of economics is to maximize happiness by purchasing pleasure, as it were, at the lowest cost of pain.
— William Stanley Jevons
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