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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. [3]
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 (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.
William Stanley Jevons. 1835-1882. W illiam 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 ...
Jun 8, 2018 · A biography of Jevons, one of the greatest and most original of English economists, who developed the marginal utility theory of value. Learn about his life, works, and contributions to social science and policy.
William Stanley Jevons. Quick Info. Born. 1 September 1835. Liverpool, England. Died. 13 August 1882. Hastings, England. Summary. Stanley Jevons was an English mathematician, economist and logician. View three larger pictures. Biography. Stanley Jevons's father was Thomas Jevons and his mother was Mary Anne Roscoe.
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Learn about the life and work of William Stanley Jevons, a prominent British economist and a former student and professor of UCL. He was a pioneer of marginalist theory, mathematical analysis and econometrics.
