Writings on Economics
Published on 18. December 2000
Book
Hardback
200 pages
978-0-333-80416-2 (ISBN)
Description
Over a century after his death, William Stanley Jevons (1835-82) is still universally regarded as one of Britain's greatest and most original economists. Influenced by Bentham's utilitarianism, he considered economics to be a calculus of pleasure and pain. He applied the discipline of a natural scientist, giving an emphasis to mathematical economics that proved to be profoundly influential. He was the discoverer (along with Walras and Menger) of the marginal utility theory and made the greatest single contribution to the technique of constructing price statistics into index numbers. In short, Jevons led economics through a major theoretical revolution, from orthodox classical economics into the era of the neoclassical economics of Walras, Marshall and others. This collection reprints all of Jevon's most important economic works in nine volumes.
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Language
English
Place of publication
Basingstoke
United Kingdom
Target group
College/higher education
Professional and scholarly
Illustrations
Illustrations
Dimensions
Height: 305 mm
Width: 268 mm
Thickness: 241 mm
Weight
5626 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-333-80416-2 (9780333804162)
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Content
Introduction; Bert Mosselmans, and Michael V. White Volume 1 Theory of Political Economy. First edition. 1871. 294pp + new introduction Volume 2 Theory of Political Economy. Second edition. 1879. 378pp Volume 3 Theory of Political Economy. Fourth edition. 1911. 350pp Volume 4 Money and the Mechanism of Exchange. 368pp Volume 5 Political Economy. First edition. 1878. 134pp. with The State in Relation to Labour [1882]. Fourth edition. 1910. 192pp Volume 6 Methods of Social Reform and other Papers. First edition. 1883. 390pp Volume 7 Investigations in Currency and Finance. (1884). Second edition. 1909. 390pp Volume 8 The Principles of Economics: a Fragment of a Treatise on the Industrial Mechanism of Society. First edition. 1905. 300pp Volume 9 The Coal Question; an Inquiry Concerning the Progress of the Nation, and the Probable Exhaustion of our Coal-Mines, First edition, 1865. 370pp