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William Stanley Jevons and the Making of Modern Economics
Contributor(s): Maas, Harro (Author)

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 ISBN: 0521154731     ISBN-13: 9780521154734
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
OUR PRICE: $44.64  

Binding Type: Paperback - See All Available Formats & Editions
Published: June 2010
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BISAC Categories:
- Business & Economics | Economic History
- Business & Economics | Economics - Theory
Dewey: 330.157
Series: Historical Perspectives on Modern Economics
Physical Information: 0.79" H x 6" W x 9" L (1.14 lbs) 354 pages
Themes:
- Chronological Period - 19th Century
 
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The Victorian polymath William Stanley Jevons (1835-82) is generally and rightly venerated as one of the great innovators of economic theory and method in what came to be known as the 'marginalist revolution'. This book is an investigation into the cultural and intellectual resources that Jevons drew upon to revolutionize research methods in economics. Jevons's uniform approach to the sciences was based on a firm belief in the mechanical constitution of the universe and a firm conviction that all scientific knowledge was limited and therefore hypothetical in character. Jevons's mechanical beliefs found their way into his early meteorological studies, his formal logic, and his economic pursuits. By using mechanical analogies as instruments of discovery, Jevons was able to bridge the divide between theory and statistics that had become more or less institutionalized in mid nineteenth-century Britain.
 
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