William Stanley Jevons
Economist and logician
William Stanley Jevons FRS was an English economist and logician.
Irving Fisher described Jevons's book A General Mathematical Theory of Political Economy as the start of the mathematical method in economics. It made the case that economics, as a... Wikipedia
Born: September 1, 1835, Liverpool, United Kingdom
Died: August 13, 1882 (age 46 years), Bexhill, United Kingdom
Influenced: Alfred Marshall, Irving Fisher, Lord Robbins, and more
Children: Herbert Stanley Jevons and Harriet Winefrid Jevons
Parents: Mary Anne Jevons and Thomas Jevons
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William Stanley Jevons FRS was an English economist and logician. William Stanley Jevons. FRS. Born, (1835-09-01)1 September 1835.
Jan 22, 2007 · William Stanley Jevons (1835–1882) was an economist and philosopher who foreshadowed several developments of the 20th century.
May 8, 2024 · He moved to University College in 1876. Of his works on logic and scientific methods, the most important is his Principles of Science (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 ...
He drowned while swimming when on holiday in the south of England, but the most likely cause of the accident was that he suffered a heart-attack or stroke.
Jevons was born in Liverpool, England and studied chemistry and botany at University College, London before taking up the position of assayer at the Mint in ...
William Stanley Jevons, 1835-1882. ... English economist and logician whom, simultaneously with Carl Menger and Léon Walras, launched the Marginalist Revolution ...
Jevons was one of three men to simultaneously advance the so-called "marginal revolution." Working in complete independence of one another—Jevons in ...
In his 1865 book, “The Coal Question; An Inquiry Concerning the Progress of the Nation, and the Probable Exhaustion of Our Coal Mines,” British economist ...
William Stanley Jevons (author). Jevons's formative 1875 classic work came into print at the height of interest in gold, silver, and international monetary ...