• I consider that interest is determined by the increment of produce which it enables a labourer to obtain, and is altogether independent of the total return which he receives for this labour.

    William Stanley Jevons: I consider that interest is determined by the increment of produce which it enables a labourer to obtain, and is altogether independent of the total return which he receives for this labour.
    William Stanley Jevons (1871). “The Theory of Political Economy”, p.240