Jevons

[jev-uhnz]

noun

William Stanley, 1835–82, English economist and logician.

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Jevons (ˈdʒɛv^ənz)

—n
	William Stanley. 1835--82, English economist and logician: introduced the concept of final or marginal utility in The Theory of Political Economy (1871)

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"Value is the most invincible and impalpable of ghosts, and comes and goes unthought of while the visible and dense matter remains as it was."

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