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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.’
This chapter was originally published in The New Palgrave: A Dictionary of Economics, 1st edition, 1987. Edited by John Eatwell, Murray Milgate and Peter Newman
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Edgeworth, F. (1987). Indifference, Law Of. In: The New Palgrave Dictionary of Economics. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/978-1-349-95121-5_999-1
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