William Stanley Jevons and the Making of Modern Economics

by Harro Maas

Book Overview

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...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0521154731
• ISBN13: 9780521154734
• Release Date: June 2010
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Length: 354 Pages
• Weight: 1.14 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.0" x 9.0"