William Stanley Jevons and the Making of Modern Economics

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Edition: Revised
Format: Paperback
Pub. Date: 2010-06-24
Publisher(s): Cambridge University Press
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Summary

This book examines William Stanley Jevons??'s role in revolutionizing nineteenth-century economics.

Table of Contents

The prying eyes of the natural scientist
William Stanley Jevons: Victorian polymath
The black arts of induction
Mimetic experiments
Engines of discovery
The machinery of the mind
The private laboratory of the mind
The laws of human enjoyment
Timing history
Balancing acts
The image of economics
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