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Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Pages: 38. Chapters: William Stanley Jevons, E. F. Schumacher, Richard Price, Peter Whittle, Lancelot Hogben, Colin Clark, Arthur Schuster, Tony Greenfield, Clive Granger, Oscar Kempthorne, Udny Yule, Josiah Stamp, 1st Baron Stamp, John Nelder, Arnold Weinstock, Royal Statistical Society, Enid Charles, Doug Altman, Joseph Oscar Irwin, Walter Bodmer, Howell Tong, Adrian Smith, William Morgan, Richard Stone, A. W. F. Edwards, Sir Frederick Eden, 2nd Baronet, James Durbin, Len Cook, Julian Besag, John Boreham, Alexander Aitken, D. J. Finney, Bernard Benjamin, T.M.F. Smith, Brian D. Ripley, Leon Isserlis, Alfred William Flux, David Glass, David Clayton, Michael Healy, Clara Collet, D.J. Bartholomew, Henry Daniels, John C. Gittins, Gwilym Jenkins, Peter Green, John Hajnal, William Gemmell Cochran, William Guy, Nick Day, Harvey Goldstein, Richard Mott, Jotun Hein, Guy Nason, John Micklewright, Martin Bland, Richard W. B. Clarke, Nicholas Polson, Stuart Pocock, David Hand, Anatoly Zhigljavsky, Denise Lievesley, Maurice Priestley, Matthew Stephens, Gilean McVean. Excerpt: William Stanley Jevons (pronounced ) (1 September 1835 - 13 August 1882) was a British economist and logician. Irving Fisher described his book The Theory of Political Economy (1871) as beginning the mathematical method in economics. It made the case that economics as a science concerned with quantities is necessarily mathematical. In so doing, it expounded upon the "final" (marginal) utility theory of value. Jevons' work, along with similar discoveries made by Carl Menger in Vienna (1871) and by Leon Walras in Switzerland (1874), marked the opening of a new period in the history of economic thought. Jevons' contribution to the marginal revolution in economics in the late 19th century established his reputation as a leading political economist and logician of the time. Jevons ...
