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  • PLEASURE and pain are undoubtedly the ultimate objects of the calculus of economics. To satisfy our wants to the utmost with the least effort - to procure the greatest amount of what is desirable at the expense of the least that is undesirable - in other words, to maximize pleasure, is the problem of economics.

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    Pain   Effort   Want  
    William Stanley Jevons (1871). “The Theory of Political Economy”, p.44

  • By a commodity we shall understand any object, substance, action or service, which can afford pleasure or ward off pain.

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

  • 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.

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

  • Born: September 1, 1835
  • Died: August 13, 1882
  • Occupation: Economist
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