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	William Stanley Jevons - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		William Stanley Jevons (September 1, 1835 - August 13, 1882), English economist and logician, was born in Liverpool.
		Jevons' work, along with similar discoveries made by Carl 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.
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		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).
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		Jevons' work along with discoveries made by Carl Menger in Vienna (1871) and by Léon Walras in Switzerland (1874) marked the opening of a new in the history of economic thought.
		Jevons broke off his studies of the sciences in London in 1854 to work an assayer in Sydney where he acquired an interest in political economy.
		Jevons was a proponent of a famous theory on utility infair exchanges.
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	William Stanley Jevons and the Australian climate
		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.
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	Encyclopedia: William Stanley Jevons (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-25)
		William Roscoe (March 8, 1753 - June 30, 1831), was an English historian and miscellaneous writer.
		William Whewell William Whewell (May 24, 1794 â€“ March 6, 1866) was an Anglican priest, philosopher, theologian and historian of science.
		Marshall Jevons is the name of a ficticious writer invented by William Breit and Kenneth G. Elzinga, professors of economics at Trinity University and the University of Virginia, respectively.
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	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.
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	William Stanley Jevons -- Facts, Info, and Encyclopedia article (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-25)
		The most important of his works on (The branch of philosophy that analyzes inference) logic and (A method of investigation involving observation and theory to test scientific hypotheses) scientific methods is his Principles of Science (1874), as well as The Theory of Political Economy (1871) and The State in Relation to Labour (1882).
		On the 13th of August 1882 he was drowned whilst bathing near (The decisive battle in which William the Conqueror (duke of Normandy) defeated the Saxons under Harold II (1066) and thus left England open for the Norman Conquest) Hastings.
		It was not till after the publication of this work that Jevons became acquainted with the applications of mathematics to political economy made by earlier writers, notably Antoine Augustin Cournot and (Click link for more info and facts about HH Gossen) HH Gossen.
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		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].
		In many ways this showed one weakness that Jevons had, namely that although he was advocating a mathematical approach to many problems, his lack of understanding of Boole's mathematics in particular shows that he could not fully appreciate it.
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	William Stanley Jevons
		Jevons was perhaps the first economist to argue that the phases of business activity had a regular, measurable and predictable periodicity.
		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.
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	WILLIAM STANLEY JEVONS - LoveToKnow Article on WILLIAM STANLEY JEVONS
		He now gave his principal attention to the moral sciences, but his interest in natural science was by no means exhausted: throughout his life he continued to write occasional papers on scientific subjects, and his intimate knowledge of the physical sciences greatly contributed to the success of his chief logical work, Tile Principles of Science.
		It was not till after the publication of this work that Jevons became acquainted with the applications of mathematics to political economy made by earlier writers, notably Antoine Augustin Cournot and H. Gossen.
		But a certain exaggeration of emphasis may be pardoned in a writer seeking to attract the attention of an indifferent public.
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	Economics Interactive (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-25)
		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.
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	William Stanley Jevons / Biography (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-25)
		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."
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		William Stanley Jevons (1835-1882) was an English logician and economist who expounded in his book The Theory of Political Economy (1871) the "final" (marginal) utility theory of value.
		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.
		The first version of this article was based on an article in the Encyclopedia of Marxism at www.marxists.org.
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	William Stanley Jevons Biography / Biography of William Stanley Jevons Biography 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.
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	AllRefer.com - William Stanley Jevons (Economics, Biography) - Encyclopedia
		William Stanley Jevons[jev´unz] Pronunciation Key, 1835–82, English economist and logician.
		After working in Australia as assayer to the mint, he taught at Owens College, Manchester, and University College, London.
		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.
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		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.
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	JRULM: Special Collections Guide: Jevons Family Papers (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-25)
		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.
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	William Stanley Jevons
		Jevons returned to logic around this time, further developing the "logical alphabets" of Boolean schemata.
		Unbeknownst to Jevons, Carl Menger (1871) had just published a book expounding the same theory and, a little while later, Léon Walras (1874) presented his own version.
		Jevons also denounced Mill for failing to incorporate Spencer's evolutionism into utilitarian doctrine.
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	William Stanley Jevons - Wikipedia
		Jevons war ein Enkel des berühmten Historikers William Roscoe.
		Nach dem Bankrott seines Vaters brach Jevons sein Studium ab und ging nach Australien.
		Er studierte weiter in London, wurde 1864 Fellow an der Universität dort, 1866 Professor am Owen's College in Manchester und 1876 Professor der Nationalökonomie an der Universität London, welche Stelle er Anfang 1881 niederlegte.
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	William Stanley Jevons
		Der englische Logiker, Methodologe und Ökonom William Stanley Jevons bezeichnete die Logik als die Wissenschaft von den natürlichen Gesetzen des Denkens, deren Nichtbefolgung unmöglich ist.
		sind werden in Jevons' mathematischer Logik, eine Weiterentwicklung der logischen Algebra, durch das Gleichheitszeichen = ersetzt.
		Nach Jevons führt die Induktion zur Entdeckung allgemeiner Gesetze, zur Entdeckung der Beziehungen von Ursache und Wirkung, zur Entdeckung aller allgemeinen Wahrheiten.
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	First Edition by William Stanley Jevons: The Logical Piano (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-25)
		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).
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	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.
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		Career With Menger and Walras he was one of the three co-discoverers of marginal utility theory, but was also widely known for his textbooks on logic and his applied economic studies.
		The preface to the second edition, together with a bibliography of works on mathematical economics dating back to 1711, did much to teach the generation that came after him about the long history of marginal analysis and utility theory in the century before 1871.
		William Stanley Jevons Homepage (home.tvd.be) It contains, besides links, a short biography in 6000 words and a bibliography of secondary sources.
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	Jevons, William Stanley - Bright Sparcs Biographical entry
		William Stanley Jevons was assayer at the new Sydney Mint 1854-59 then returned to England.
		While in Australia he made systematic observations in meteorology, botany, geology, and of social phenomena, and in 1857 became interested in the new art of wet-plate photography.
		Nicholls, Neville, 'William Stanley Jevons and the climate of Australia', 2000,
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	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.
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