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	WILLIAM STANLEY JEVONS - LoveToKnow Article on WILLIAM STANLEY JEVONS
		His father, Thomas Jevons, a man of strong scientific tastes and a writer on legal and economic subjects, was an iron merchant.
		Jevons suffered a good deal from ill health and sleeplessness, and found the delivery of lectures covering so wide a range of subjects very burdensome.
		Jevons arrived quite early in his career at the doctrines that constituted his most characteristic and original contributions to economics and logic.
	www.1911encyclopedia.org /J/JE/JEVONS_WILLIAM_STANLEY.htm (1400 words)

	Jevons, William Stanley (1835-1 882) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
		Jevons was the ninth child of Thomas Jevons, a Liverpool iron merchant, and Mary Arm, daughter of William Roscoe, a noted banker, historian and art collector of the same city.
		Jevons proceeded to a deseription of post-trade equilibrium.
		Jevons had presented a 'wage-fund' explanation for the (entrepteneurial) 'short-run' and an explanation of 'long-run' wages that is hard to distinguish from 'natural wage' doctrine (especially in its Smithian form, where the 'natural' wage for.common labour' is merely the current 'centre of gravity' and not necessarily a minimum 'subsistence' wage).
	staff-www.uni-marburg.de /~multimed/theorie/economics/grenznutzen/bios/Jevons.html (10416 words)

	Jevons (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
		Stanley was sent to London to became a boarder at University College School in 1850.
		In 1867 Jevons married Harriot Ann Taylor, one of the daughter's of the founder and first editor of the Manchester Guardian (founded in 1821 as the weekly, it had become a daily paper in 1855).
		Jevons and Boole corresponded in 1863 and 1864, and this correspondence is published in [12].
	www-groups.dcs.st-and.ac.uk /~history/Mathematicians/Jevons.html (1755 words)

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		A second major area of policy concern for Jevons was labor-capital strife which he believed was entering a new, potentially destructive phase with the growth of trade unionism: “[C]an anyone truly say that experience is in favour of the present relations of capital and labour?” Fundamental change in labor-capital relations was necessary.
		Under these circumstances, she suggests that it is easily understood “how Jevons, brought up in circles concerned with social improvement, himself became absorbed in the subject of towns and in exploring London.” Jevons’s interest in public issues evidently was on-going with, and even preceded, his interest in formulating a new theory of economics.
		Jevons interpreted Ricardo narrowly this way perhaps to facilitate his attack on the natural rate of wages doctrine, intending to undermine its credibility in the face of persistently rising real wages and diverse wage rates.
	www.suu.edu /faculty/bowman/Econ3790/JevonsTheory&Policy.htm (8119 words)

	Economics Interactive (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
		William Stanley Jevons belongs to the group of economists whose school of thought dominated economics for a half-century after the death of John Stuart Mill in 1873.
		But in 1871, Jevons ensured his place in the history of economic thought with his Theory of Political Economy, which based the theory of value and exchange on the principles of marginal utility.
		Jevons was convinced that both total utility and marginal utility could be measured precisely.
	www.unc.edu /depts/econ/byrns_web/HET/Pioneers/jevons.htm (447 words)

	Australian Meteorological Magazine, 47, 285-293, December 1998 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
		Jevons was described by Lord Lionel Robbins as "one of the great Englishmen of the nineteenth century" (Robbins, 1932), not because of his meteorological work, but because he developed what has become known as the marginal utility theory of value, and because of his contributions to statistics and logic.
		Jevons noted that Western Australia did not appear to suffer from long droughts as was the case in the rest of Australia, so that "we may perhaps conclude, that the climate of this part, shows less variations in the yearly rainfall than the climate of the other colonies" (p 60).
		Jevons attributed the droughts to the moisture bearing "monsoon-like summer wind" on the southeast coast of the continent being "overpowered" by the mid-latitude westerlies.
	www.bom.gov.au /bmrc/pubs/1998/AMM47.htm (5289 words)

	William Stanley Jevons Biography / Biography of William Stanley Jevons Biography
		Jevons was a utilitarian, treating economics as a calculus of pleasure and pain.
		Jevons found the economic theory of David Ricardo and John Stuart Mill, that value rests upon cost of production, to be unacceptable, but he did not succeed in getting wide acceptance of his own advances in economic theory.
		Jevons developed concepts of market processes and economic equilibrium, using diagrams of the general type familiar to students of economics.
	www.bookrags.com /biography-william-stanley-jevons (573 words)

	History of Economics: HES List Guest Editorial -- Mosselmans
		Abstract of Cracking the Canon: William Stanley Jevons and the Deconstruction of "Ricardo"
		According to Jevons, population growth is fostered by the use of coal.
		In Jevons the scarcity is external, since it concerns the external engine of human progress becoming scarce because of objective societal mechanisms which have nothing to do with the misbehaviour of human free will.
	www.eh.net /HE/hes_list/Editorials/mosselmans.php (1634 words)

	William Stanley Jevons
		Stanley Jevons (as he preferred to be called) was born in Liverpool on September 1, 1835, the ninth child of a family of prosperous iron merchants.
		Although Jevons had renounced Benthamite utilitaranism as a workable political or ethical philosophy in his 1871 Theory (as distinct from the use of the utility concept to illustrate the "simple and restricted" problem of economic exchange), his work on social philosophy and public policy (1879, 1882, 1883) resurrected the theme.
		Jevons could have gone further by connecting his insights in pure exchange into a wider theory incorporating production, capital, money and the business cycle in a more systematic and consistent manner that would have knocked the Ricardian School completely out of the picture.
	cepa.newschool.edu /het/profiles/jevons.htm (3468 words)

	William Stanley Jevons / Biography (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
		Jevons was very influenced by utilitarianism which is an ethical theory which states that questions of social policy and individual morality should be answered by calculating the consequences of policies or actions on the utility of individuals.
		Jevons was was a strong proponent of mathmatical economics.
		Jevons also formulated the "equation of exchange", which shows that for a consumer to be maximizing his or her utility,"the ratio of the marginal utility of each item consumed to its price must be equal."
	www.cooperativeindividualism.org /jevonsbio.html (268 words)

	Pure Logic or the Logic of Quality apart from Quantity (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
		William Stanley Jevons was one of the outstanding economists of the nineteenth century, who played a central role in the development of the "marginal revolution", which marked the beginning of modern neo-classical economics.
		Jevons was particularly keen to raise the status of the logic as a science in its own right, and as one shorn of metaphysics.
		Jevons was something of a polymath with interests in theories of sunspots, Brownian movement of microscopic particles in liquids and rainbows.
	rylibweb.man.ac.uk /data2/archivehub/jevhub.sgm (1279 words)

	William Stanley Jevons, Biography: The Concise Encyclopedia of Economics: Library of Economics and Liberty
		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 Laussane, Switzerland; and Carl Menger in Vienna—each scholar developed the theory of marginal utility to understand and explain consumer behavior.
		Jevons went on to define the "equation of exchange." This equation shows that for a consumer to be maximizing his or her utility, the ratio of the marginal utility of each item consumed to its price must be equal.
		Jevons failed to appreciate the fact that as the price of an energy source rises, entrepreneurs have a strong incentive to invent, develop, and produce alternate sources.
	www.econlib.org /library/Enc/bios/Jevons.html (872 words)

	Glossary of People: Je (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
		Jevons' work, along with similar discoveries made by Karl Menger in Vienna (1871) and by Léon Walras in Switzerland (1874), marked the opening of a new period in the history of economic thought.
		Jevons broke off his studies of the natural sciences in London in 1854 to work as an assayer in Sydney, where he acquired an interest in political economy.
		For Jevons, the utility or value to a consumer of an additional unit of a product is inversely related to the number of units of that product he already owns, at least beyond some critical quantity.
	www.marxists.org /glossary/people/j/e.htm (221 words)

	Jevons, William Stanley on Encyclopedia.com (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
		His major contribution to economics was his marginal utility theory of value; Jevons held that value was determined by utility, and he demonstrated the relationship in mathematical terms.
		Menger, Jevons, and Walras un-homogenized, de-homogenized, and homogenized: a comment on Peart.
		Jevons and Menger re-homogenized?: Jaffe after 20 years.
	www.encyclopedia.com /html/j/jevons-w1.asp (415 words)

	Korzybski Org
		William Stanley Jevons Nothing is more important in observation and experiment than to be uninfluenced by any prejudice or theory.
		Economics has such theory in the case of W. Stanley Jevons' formulations of the science,4 and also in the case of the very similar theory of the Austrian school.
		Much of his time in the 1860's was given to the building of such an instrument by which the validity of deductions was able to be tested automatically.
	www.geocities.com /paultabaka/jevons.html (1389 words)

	William Stanley Jevons -- Encyclopædia Britannica (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
		The movement itself was thoroughly international, and included such figures as William Stanley Jevons in England and Léon Walras in France.
		Three times British prime minister between 1923 and 1937, Stanley Baldwin headed the government during the general strike of 1926, the Ethiopian crisis of 1935, and the abdication crisis of 1936.
		U.S. motion-picture director Stanley Kubrick was known for his meticulous attention to detail and his detached, pessimistic view of life.
	www.britannica.com /eb/article-9043592?tocId=9043592 (735 words)

	First Edition by William Stanley Jevons: The Logical Piano
		Jevons article illustrated with three full-page plates bound in rear.
		Jevons invented a "logical piano" (so named because it resembled a small upright piano) that could perform, through a sequence of switches, various types of logical calculations.
		In doing so, he became "the first person to construct a machine with sufficient power to solve a complicated problem faster than the problem could be solved without the machine's aid" (Goldstine).
	www.theworldsgreatbooks.com /jevons.htm (256 words)

	The curious economist: William Stanley Jevons in Sydney
		While his name is not generally well known today, Jevons is credited with having made economics a mathematical discipline, and he is regarded as one of the founders of the form of neo-classical economics that dominates our current economic thinking and political discourse.
		Given William Stanley Jevons' participation in, and influence upon, fields as diverse as science, photography and urban geography, and particularly as this work was conducted in colonial Sydney, the Powerhouse Museum is ideally placed to mount this exhibition.
		The Museum collection includes Jevons' telescope, along with assaying equipment from the Mint (including balances) and examples of the coins produced, and photographic equipment of the kind used by Jevons and his photography circle.
	www.powerhousemuseum.com /exhibitions/jevons.asp (698 words)

	JRULM: Special Collections Guide: Jevons Family Papers (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
		Papers of the Jevons family, especially William Stanley Jevons (1835-1882), Professor of Logic, Mental and Moral Philosophy, and Political Economy at Owens College, Manchester, 1866-1876, and Professor of Political Economy at University College, London, 1876-1880.
		William Stanley Jevons was a true polymath, whose research spanned many disciplines.
		His outstanding contributions were in the fields of economics and logic (he has been described as the founder of mathematical economics), but his published writings also encompassed chemistry, meteorology, geology, astronomy, geometry, physiology, sociology and the philosophy of science.
	rylibweb.man.ac.uk /data2/spcoll/jevons (202 words)

	Smart Computers and Other Technological Opportunities (18-Apr-2000) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
		Read enough to have opinions on (1) what Jevons got right, (2) what he couldn't have gotten right, because of information later than 1865, (3) where he was mistaken even considering the information he had.
		The Coal Question by William Stanley Jevons was written in 1865, and I will put the 1904 edition on reserve in the Computer Science Library.
		In 1865 England mined half the coal mined in the world, and Jevons considered that this was the basis of English prosperity.
	www-formal.stanford.edu /jmc/seminar2000 (287 words)

	William Stanley Jevons and the Making of Modern Economics - Cambridge University Press
		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’.
		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.
		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.
	www.cup.cam.ac.uk /catalogue/catalogue.asp?isbn=0521827124 (228 words)

	Federation and Meteorology, Astronomical and Meteorological Workers in New South Wales, page 1535
		William Stanley Jevons who hold a position in the Royal Mint at Sydney from 1854 to 1859, took the M.A. degree in 1862, and was afterwards Professor of Logic, and Mental and Moral Philosophy, etc., at Owen's College, Manchester.
		Some of his conclusions more recent observations and investigations have shewn to be wrong but they were entirely in accord with the facts then available, and he presented the most concise and accurate account of the climate which had been written.
		Jevons was only nineteen years of age when he came to the colony, and twenty-four when he left.
	www.austehc.unimelb.edu.au /fam/1535.html (507 words)

	Jevons, The Theory of Political Economy - Prefaces: The Online Library of Liberty
		Return to the Introduction to Jevons and the detailed Table of Contents.
		William Stanley Jevons, The Theory of Political Economy (London: Macmillan, 1888) 3rd ed.
		Jevons has laid down in the preface to the second edition, and though the list is probably not complete, I hope that no work of importance has been omitted.
	oll.libertyfund.org /Texts/Econlib/Jevons0331/PoliticalEconomy/HTMLs/0237_Pt01_Prefaces.html (9939 words)

	VGGEC - Recent papers (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
		Mosselmans, B., Cracking the Canon : William Stanley Jevons and the Deconstruction of 'Ricardo', forthcoming in : Psalidopoulos, M. (ed.) The Canon in the History of Economics : Critical Essays.
		Mosselmans, B., William Stanley Jevons and the Extent of Meaning in Logic and Economics, History and Philosophy of Logic, Vol.
		Mosselmans, B., Jevons, the Doctrine of Rent and the 'Marginal Revolution', februari 1998 (Abstract).
	cfec.vub.ac.be /ggec/papers.html (409 words)

	The papers of William Stanley Jevons, 1835-1882, from the John Rylands University Library of Manchester
		The papers of William Stanley Jevons, 1835-1882, from the John Rylands University Library of Manchester
		Notes: William Stanley Jevons, an economist, was one of the central figures in the "Marginal revolution", a watershed in the history of nineteenth century economic thought.
		The John Rylands collection of Jevon's papers include: Family correspondence and papers, 1760-1910; letters over 600 written to William Jevons, mostly from academics and family; diaries and notebooks, 1845-1862; writings, notes and research materials; documents on Jevon's career, his work and obituary material and Roscoe and other family papers including holiday diaries and photographs.
	www.lib.monash.edu.au /microform/5857.html (180 words)

	Logic Machines
		In fact it wasn't until around sixty years after his death that the Earl's notes and one of his devices fell into the hands of the Reverend Robert Harley, who subsequently published an article on the Stanhope Demonstrator in 1879.
		Jevons was an aficionado of Boolean logic, and his solution was something of a cross between a logical abacus and a piano (in fact it was sometimes referred to as a
		Like Jevons' device, Marquand's machine could only handle four variables, but it was smaller and significantly more intuitive to use.
	www.maxmon.com /1879ad.htm (590 words)

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