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Article by Jevons in the Journal of the Royal Statistical Society which promised to reduce economics to a mathematical form.
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The following paper briefly describes the nature of a Theory of Economy which will reduce the main problem of this science to a mathematical form. Economy, indeed, being concerned with quantities, has always of necessity been mathematical in its subject,...An article in The Economist by Walter Bagehot arguing with a proposed multi-commodity currency reform proposed by Jevons.
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A New Standard of Value Manchester so well know in the economical and statistical world by his researches on coal has written an excellent treatise on Money and the Mechanism of Exchange which we strongly recommend to our readers. It is extremely clear, brief without...Short biography and link to major works.
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Jevons, W. S Walras he was one of the three co-discoverers of marginal utility theory, but was also widely known for his textbooks on logic and his applied economic studies. In The Coal Question he treated coal as the essential resource for the...Biography of Jevons focussing on his mathematical work.
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Jevons Click the picture above to see three larger pictures Show birthplace location Previous (Chronologically) Next BiographiesIndex Previous (Alphabetically) Next Mainindex Version for printing Stanley Jevons's father was Thomas Jevons and his mother was Mary Anne Roscoe. Thomas Jevons was an...Intellectual biography and links to resources from the History of Economic Thought site.
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William Stanley Jevons English economist and logician whom, simultaneously with Carl Menger and Léon Walras, launched the Marginalist Revolution of 1871-4 that gave birth to Neoclassical economics.Stanley Jevons (as he preferred to be called) was born in Liverpool on September 1, 1835, the...