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William Stanley Jevons FRS (/ ˈ dʒ ɛ v ən z /; 1 September 1835 – 13 August 1882) was an English economist and logician.. Irving Fisher described Jevons's book A General Mathematical Theory of Political Economy (1862) as the start of the mathematical method in economics. It made the case that economics, as a science concerned with quantities, is necessarily mathematical.
Jan 22, 2007 · William Stanley Jevons (1835–1882) was an economist and philosopher who foreshadowed several developments of the 20th century. He is one of the main contributors to the ‘marginal revolution’, which revolutionised economic theory and shifted classical to neoclassical economics.
William Stanley Jevons (Liverpool, 1 de setembro de 1835 — Bexhill, 13 de agosto de 1882) foi um economista britânico. Vida. Foi um dos fundadores da ...
William Stanley Jevons (born September 1, 1835, Liverpool, England—died August 13, 1882, near Hastings, Sussex) was an English logician and economist whose book The Theory of Political Economy (1871) expounded the “final” (marginal) utility theory of value.Jevons’s work, along with similar discoveries made by Karl Menger in Vienna (1871) and by Léon Walras in Switzerland (1874 ...
William Jevons was one of three men to simultaneously advance the so-called marginal revolution. Working in complete independence of one another—Jevons in Manchester, England; leon walras in Lausanne, Switzerland; and carl menger in Vienna—each scholar developed the theory of marginal utility to understand and explain consumer behavior. The theory held that the utility (value) […]
Jun 8, 2018 · Jevons, William Stanley. WORKS BY JEVONS. SUPPLEMENTARY BIBLIOGRAPHY. William Stanley Jevons (1835–1882), one of the greatest and most original of English economists, was born in Liverpool. His father was an iron merchant and engineer who constructed one of the first iron boats and also wrote on economics and legal subjects; his mother was a daughter of the historian William Roscoe.
William Stanley Jevons (1835-1882) is best known as a British econo mist who was one of the pioneers of contemporary neoclassical eco nomic analysis, with its subjective value theory rooted in marginal utility. His applied economics and theoretical insights marked new points of departure for later
Jan 1, 2018 · This article examines William Stanley Jevons’s life and work against the background of Victorian disputes over the appropriate method of political economy. Jevons is commonly known as one of the founders of marginalist analysis in economics. As a genuine...
The most eminent figure to hold a professorship of economics at UCL was William Stanley Jevons, also earlier a student of the college. Often seen as the main British contributor to the marginalist revolution in economic thought of the 1870s, he challenged Ricardian ideas, seeking for instance to replace theories of value based on labour input with theories based on utility.
Jan 1, 2017 · William Stanley Jevons and the Cutting Edge of Economics. London and New York: Routledge. Google Scholar Mosselmans, B. and White, M.V. 2001. Collected Economic Writings of WS. Jevons. London: Palgrave Macmillan. Google Scholar Nicholls, N. 1998. William Stanley Jevons and the climate of Australia.
