# Gossen's law of the saturation of wants # References / Links >[!Ref] Lexicon > ># Gossen's law of the saturation of wants > The continuance, increase or repetition of the same kind of consumption yields a continuously decreasing satisfaction or pleasure up to a point of satiety. This law first propounded in 1854 by Hermann Heinrich Gossen (1810-1858), in a rare and little known German book, was rediscovered more than twenty years later by Robert Adamson (1852-1902), a Scottish Professor of Logic and Philosophy, and reported to the eminent English economist, William Stanley Jevons (1835-1882) who brought it to the attention of the economic profession. . [[Understanding the Dollar Crisis (PLG.)]] 39-40. > Also referred to a the "[[first law of Gossen]]".