biography
| name: |
Jevons, William Stanley
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pronunciation:
[jevonz]
| sex:
| male
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| lived:
| (1835–82)
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| biography:
| Economist and logician, born in Liverpool, Merseyside, NW England, UK. He studied chemistry and metallurgy at University College London, and became assayer to the Mint in Sydney, Australia (1854–9). He returned to England and studied logic under Augustus de Morgan at London, becoming professor of logic at Manchester (1866) and professor of political economy at London (1876). He introduced mathematical methods into economics, was one of the first to use the concept of final or marginal utility as opposed to the classical cost of production theories, and wrote Theory of Political Economy (1871), a major work in the development of economic thought. |
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