Titles by William Stanley Jevons

1835 – 1882

Jevons was born in Liverpool, England and studied chemistry and botany at University College, London before taking up the position of assayer at the Mint in Sydney, Australia. He was later appointed to the post of chair in political economy at his alma mater and retired from there in 1880. He is one of three economists (along with Walras and Menger) who came up with a theory of marginal utility in 1871, thus transforming our understanding the theory of value.

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Titles

The Coal Question

William Stanley Jevons

Letters and Journal

William Stanley Jevons

Methods of Social Reform and Other Papers

William Stanley Jevons

Money and the Mechanism of Exchange

William Stanley Jevons

The Theory of Political Economy

William Stanley Jevons

Essay on the Nature of Trade in general (Higgs ed.)

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