William Stanley Jevons: Critical Assessments(Critical Assessments of Leading Economists)

This work is the eighth in the series of Critical Assessments of Leading Economists. Like the earlier works it presents a selection of the critical literature commenting on the life and works of major economist. This particularly valuable for an economist like Jevons whose seminal work The Theory of Political Economy published in 1871 opened up a new period of theorising and debate. His work, his work particularly in the fields of marginal utility theory, economic fluctuations and business cycles, did a great deal to stimulate work by others. By putting into thematic and chronological sequence many of the critical assessments of Jevons' work, the present volumes give students of economics and the history of economic thought immediate access both to the processes of Jevon's contribution and to how his thought has been received and modified by subsequent generations of economists.

Table of Contents:
6 Introduction to Volume II 7 Mathematical Toolbox II 8 Solvability of Coagulation-Fragmentation Equations 9 Gelation and Shattering 10 Long-Term Behaviour 11 Miscellanea

About the Author :
Jacek Banasiak is a Professor of Mathematics at the University of Kwazulu-Natal, Zimbabwe. His main research areas are functional analytic methods in kinetic theory and mathematical biology, singular perturbations, general applied analysis and partial differential equations and evolution problems. He is the author/co-author of 5 monographs and over 100 papers in these fields. He is also Editor-in-Chief of Afrika Matematika (Springer). In 2013 he was awarded the Cross of Merit (Silver) of the Republic of Poland. Wilson Lamb is a Senior Lecturer at the University of Strathclyde, Scotland. His main interests lie in Functional Analysis, Applied Analysis, Evolution Equations, Mathematical Analysis of Coagulation and Fragmentation Processes. He has published over 45 refereed research publications. He has given lecture courses at all levels to Mathematics degree students and to Science and Engineering students. These include courses on elementary calculus and algebra, discrete mathematics, multivariable calculus, linear algebra and vector space theory. He was nominated for the University of Strathclyde Students’ Association Teaching Excellence Awards in 2012, 2013 and 2014; in 2013, he was shortlisted for the category of “Best in Science Faculty”. Philippe Laurençot is the Director of research (senior researcher) CNRS 1, Institut de Math ematiques de Toulouse, Universite Paul Sabatier. His main research interests include the mathematical analysis of evolution partial differential equations,dynamical system approach to evolution partial differential equations, coagulation equations and mathematical models in biology. He is the author of over 170 scientific publications and has given invited talks all over the world.

Review :
`The publishers and the editor John Cunninghmam Wood are to be congratulated by historians of economic thought for making handily available such a wide range of articles.' - Scottish Journal of Political Economy