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Jevons, William Stanley - jĕvˈənz, 1835–82, English economist and logician. After working in Australia as assayer to the mint, he taught at Owens College, Manchester, and University College, London. His major contribution to economics was his marginal utility theory of value; Jevons held that value was determined by utility, and he demonstrated the relationship in |
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The Theory of Political Economy » Read Nowby William Stanley Jevons. 342 pgs.
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The Economics of W. S. Jevons » Read Nowby Sandra Peart. 314 pgs.
Collections: Entire LibraryW. S. Jevons linked poverty with economics and his thought played a key role in the Marginal Revolution. Sandra Peart looks at the breadth of his work in this book, that draws on a wealth of secondary sources.
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On Revolutions and Progress in Economic Knowledge (Chap. 3 "The Decline and Fall of English Classical Political Economy and the Jevonian Revolution" and Chap. 4 "The Jevonian Revolution and Economic Policy in Britain") » Read Nowby T. W. Hutchison. 349 pgs.
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From Exploitation to Altruism (Chap. 8 "Jevons's Theory of Capital and Interest") » Read Nowby Ian Steedman. 249 pgs.
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The History of Economic Thought: A Reader ("William Stanley Jevons (1835-1882)" begins on p. 413) » Read Nowby Steven G. Medema, Warren J. Samuels. 668 pgs.
Collections: Entire LibraryThis new reader in the history of economic thought is edited by two of the most respected figures in the field. With clearly written summaries putting each selection into context and useful questions for discussion, this book will be of great use to students and lecturers of the history of economic thought.
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The Development of Economic Thought: Great Economists in Perspective ("Jevons on Cantillon" begins on p. 42 and "Keynes on Jevons" begins on p. 489) » Read Nowby Henry William Spiegel. 811 pgs.
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Measurement, Quantification, and Economic Analysis: Numeracy in Economics (Chap. 7 "Jevons versus Cairnes on Exact Economic Laws") » Read Nowby Ingrid H. Rima. 462 pgs.
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Schools and Streams of Economic Thought ("Jevons: The Theory of Utility" begins on p. 266) » Read Nowby Edmund Whittaker. 418 pgs.
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Logic Machines and Diagrams (Chap. 5 "Jevons's Logic Machine") » Read Nowby Martin Gardner. 157 pgs.
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Memorials of Alfred Marshall (1925) (Chap. 1 "Mr. Jevons' Theory of Political Economy") » Read Nowby Alfred Marshall, A. C. Pigou. 522 pgs.
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The Canon in the History of Economics: Critical Essays (Chap. 7 "Cracking the Canon: William Stanley Jevons and the Deconstruction of 'Ricardo'") » Read Nowby Michalis Psalidopoulos. 254 pgs.
Collections: Entire LibraryThis book represents the first critical attempt to incorporate the question of the canon in the history of economics into contemporary scholarly debate. It discusses how the canon is formed, perpetuated, interpreted and reinterpreted.
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The Growth of Economic Thought (Chap. 22 "Economics Restructured: Marginalism and Optimization 1. Forerunners and Jevons") » Read Nowby Henry William Spiegel. 868 pgs.
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The Leader, the Led, and the Psyche: Essays in Psychohistory (Chap. Seven "Jevons's Science and His Second Nature") » Read Nowby Bruce Mazlish. 326 pgs.
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Economic Theory in Retrospect (Chap. 8 "Jevons and the Marginal Revolution") » Read Nowby M. Blaug. 642 pgs.
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A History of Economic Thought: The LSE Lectures ("The Marginal Revolution (I): Jevons" begins on p. 258 and "The Marginal Revolution (II): Jevons and Menger" begins on p. 268) » Read Nowby Lionel Robbins, Steven G. Medema, Warren J. Samuels. 375 pgs.
Collections: Entire LibraryLionel Robbins's now famous lectures on the history of economic thought comprise one of the greatest accounts since World War II of the evolution of economic ideas. This volume represents the first time those lectures have been published.Lord Robbins (1898-1984) was a remarkably accomplished...
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The Uses and Abuses of Economics: Contentious Essays on History and Method (Chap. 6 "The Politics and Philosophy in Jevons's Political Economy" and Chap. 7 "The Jevonian Revolution and Economic Policy in Britain") » Read Nowby Terence Hutchison. 314 pgs.
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