William Stanley Jevons Quote

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


Chapter III, Theory of Utility, p. 61. - The Theory of Political Economy (1871)


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

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

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

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