The Economics of W. S. Jevons

Table of contents

• Title Page iii
• Contents vii
• Acknowledgements x
• 1 - Introduction 1
• Appendix 1.1 Chronology of Jevons’s Life 8
• Part I - Macroeconomic Concerns 19
• 2 - Jevons’s Theory of Economic Growth 21
• Appendix 2.1 Coal Consumption 42
• Appendix 2.2 Population Data 44
• 3 - Sunspots and Expectations 45
• Part II - Microeconomic Theory 71
• 4 - Jevons’s Theory of Political Economy 73
• 5 - Jevons’s Theory of Exchange 90
• Appendix 5.1 Physics and Neoclassical Economics 114
• 6 - Production 115
• Part III - Economic Policy 135
• 7 - Jevons and Utilitarianism 137
• 8 - Jevons’s Analysis of Policy 155
• Part IV - Methodology 171
• 9 - The Rise of Empirical Methods 173
• 10 - Jevons’s Empirical Studies 194
• Appendix 10.1 Jevons’s Commodity Groups, Enlarged Sample 214
• Appendix 10.2 The Currency Wear Calculations 217
• Appendix 10.3 The Davenant Corn Law 219
• Appendix 10.4 Jevons’s 1875 Buys-Ballot Table 220
• 11 - Conclusion 221
• Notes 232
• References 295
• Index 307

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