Download or read book William Stanley Jevons and the Cutting Edge of Economics written by Bert Mosselmans and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-03-07 with total page 160 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The impressive young scholar Bert Mosselmans, analyzing the theory and policy of Jevons, a major figure in the field of the history of economics, has put together a volume with broad international appeal, particularly in Europe, North America and Japan, that offers a synthetic approach to Jevons’ economic theory, applied economics and economic policy. Adopting a relativist approach to his subject, Mosselmans focuses on all aspects of Jevons’ theory, tying the different strands together where appropriate and discriminating where necessary. Examining the relation between theory and practise he situates Jevons within the history of economic thought and in relation to his logic, ethics, religion and aesthetics. Ideal for scholars working in the fields of philosophy and history as well as economics, this ambitious and insightful work offers a comprehensive analysis of one of the founding fathers of modern economic thought, whose work marked a new chapter in its history, bridging the gap between classical and neo-classical economics.
Download or read book William Stanley Jevons and the Cutting Edge of Economics written by Bert Mosselmans and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2013-03-07 with total page 159 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The impressive young scholar Bert Mosselmans, analyzing the theory and policy of Jevons, a major figure in the field of the history of economics, has put together a volume with broad international appeal, particularly in Europe, North America and Japan, that offers a synthetic approach to Jevons’ economic theory, applied economics and economic policy. Adopting a relativist approach to his subject, Mosselmans focuses on all aspects of Jevons’ theory, tying the different strands together where appropriate and discriminating where necessary. Examining the relation between theory and practise he situates Jevons within the history of economic thought and in relation to his logic, ethics, religion and aesthetics. Ideal for scholars working in the fields of philosophy and history as well as economics, this ambitious and insightful work offers a comprehensive analysis of one of the founding fathers of modern economic thought, whose work marked a new chapter in its history, bridging the gap between classical and neo-classical economics.
Download or read book The Economics of W S Jevons written by Sandra Peart and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2002-09-11 with total page 316 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: William Stanley Jevons occupies a pivotal position in the history of economic thought, spanning the transition from classical to neo-classical economics and playing a key role in the Marginal Revolution. The breadth of Jevons's work is examined here which: * includes a detailed consideration of a wide range of his work-policy, theoretical, methodological, applied and empirical * relies on textual exegis * takes account of a wide range of secondary sources A new approach to the 'Jevonian revolution' is adopted, which emphasizes the link between poverty and economics and focuses on the nature and meaning of rationality in Jevonian economics.
Download or read book William Stanley Jevons and the Making of Modern Economics written by Harro Maas and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2005-04-04 with total page 364 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book examines William Stanley Jevons's role in revolutionizing nineteenth-century economics.
Download or read book Papers and Correspondence of William Stanley Jevons written by William Stanley Jevons and published by Springer. This book was released on 1972-09-28 with total page 259 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Papers and Correspondence of William Stanley Jevons written by William Stanley Jevons and published by Springer. This book was released on 1977-11-24 with total page 220 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Download or read book Papers and Correspondence of William Stanley Jevons written by William Stanley Jevons and published by Springer. This book was released on 1977-07-28 with total page 277 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Papers and Correspondence of William Stanley Jevons written by William Stanley Jevons and published by Springer. This book was released on 2016-02-08 with total page 357 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Jevons Paradoxes written by Kent Klitgaard and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2022-01-17 with total page 120 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 1865, economist William Stanley Jevons published The Coal Question, describing the crucial role that coal played in British economic development. Here, he enunciated what has come to be known as the Jevons paradox, which stated that improvements in resource efficiency leads to greater resource use as the expansion of scale occasioned by lower operating costs overwhelms the savings due to greater efficiency. The implications for any sustainability scenario are enormous and a major theme of this book. While The Coal Question provided the theory that was a precursor to peak oil and resource limits to growth, it was followed six years later by the Theory of Political Economy, the first English-language work of neoclassical economics, which denies the importance of energy as a special commodity. In spite of this apparent contradiction, in this book biophysical economist Kent Klitgaard makes clear that there is no epistemological break between The Coal Question and Theory of Political Economy. Indeed, the Jevons paradox makes little sense in the absence of a behavioral theory grounded in marginal utility, which recognizes the satisfaction that each of us gains as consumers of one more unit of a good or service. Jevons could not solve this paradox in light of his belief that coal mines were becoming exhausted and more expensive to operate, and that there was no substitute for coal. However, he was uninterested in questions of sustainability; rather, he wanted to maintain British industrial and imperial dominance. Did the eventual substitution of oil for coal simply allow us to run through other resources at an accelerated rate? Indeed, the petroleum economy of the 20th and early 21st centuries has presented vastly expanded opportunities for the operation of the Jevons Paradox. This book shows the connections among the different paradoxes in Jevons’ work, and exposes the potentially fatal flaws that confound technological solutions to the sustainability challenge.
Download or read book Papers and Correspondence of William Stanley Jevons written by William Stanley Jevons and published by Palgrave Macmillan. This book was released on 1973 with total page 504 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book A World Ruled by Number written by Margaret Schabas and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2014-07-14 with total page 205 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: If any single characteristic differentiates current, neoclassical economics from the classical economics of Adam Smith and David Ricardo, it is the use of mathematics. Pointing to the critical role of William Stanley Jevons (1835-1882), Margaret Schabas demonstrates that the advent of mathematical economics in late Victorian England resulted more from new currents in logic and the philosophy of science than from problems specific to the classical theory of value and distribution. Jevons's Principles of Science (1874) was the first book to take issue with John Stuart Mill's faith in inductive reasoning, to assimilate George Boole's mathematical logic, and to discern many of the limitations that beset scientific inquiry. Together with a renewed appreciation for Bentham's utility calculus, these philosophical insights served to convince Jevons and his followers that the economic world is fundamentally quantitative and thus amenable to mathematical analysis. Originally published in 1990. The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting them in durable paperback and hardcover editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of books published by Princeton University Press since its founding in 1905.
Download or read book Papers and Correspondence of William Stanley Jevons written by W S Jevons and published by Palgrave Macmillan. This book was released on 1977-10-26 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Papers and Correspondence of William Stanley Jevons written by W S Jevons and published by Springer. This book was released on 1977-09-29 with total page 329 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Papers and Correspondence of William Stanley Jevons Biography and personal journal written by William Stanley Jevons and published by London : Macmillan [for] the Royal Economic Society, 1972-1981 .. This book was released on 1972 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Papers and Correspondence of William Stanley Jevons Correspondence 1873 1878 written by William Stanley Jevons and published by . This book was released on 1977 with total page 340 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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