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Paradox of value
The paradox of value (also known as the diamond-water paradox) is the apparent contradiction, or paradox, within classical economics that, although water is on the whole more useful than diamonds, diamonds command a higher price in the market. Although Adam Smith famously propounded on the paradox in The Wealth of Nations, he was not the first to note it.
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