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"Value is nothing inherent in goods and no property of them, but merely the importance we first attribute to the satisfaction of our needs, and in consequence carry over to economic goods as the exclusive causes of the satisfaction of our needs."

— Menger, Carl

From Principles of Economics

Context: On the revolutionary concept that value originates in human preferences, not in objects themselves

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