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Excerpt from The Principles of Political Economy
The character and scope of this treatise I have endeavoured to explain fully in the introductory chapter; it remains for me here to acknowledge my debts to the works that have chiefly aided me in composing it. After J. S. Mill's book, from which I first learned political economy, and on which the present work must be understood to be primarily founded, I believe that I owe most to Jevons' Theory of Political Economy, the leading ideas of which have been continually in my thoughts - though I have had occasion to dissent from many of Mr Jevons' particular opinions. I am also considerably indebted - in spite of still more fundamental disagreement - to Cairnes' Leading Principles of Political Economy: and also to the Economics of Industry, by Mr and Mrs Alfred Marshall, together with some papers by Mr Marshall on the theory of Value diagrammatically treated, which have been privately lent to me.
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