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Indifference, Law Of

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A designation applied by Jevons to the following fundamental proposition: ‘In the same open market, at any one moment, there cannot be two prices for the same kind of article.’

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Edgeworth, F.Y. (2018). Indifference, Law Of. In: The New Palgrave Dictionary of Economics. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/978-1-349-95189-5_999

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