| William Stanley Jevons and the Making of Modern Economics Contributor(s): Maas, Harro (Author) |
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ISBN: 0521827124 ISBN-13: 9780521827126 Publisher: Cambridge University Press OUR PRICE: $133.00 Product Type: Hardcover - Other Formats Published: April 2005 Annotation: The Victorian polymath William Stanley Jevons (1835???82) is generally and rightly venerated as one of the great innovators of economic theory and method in what came to be known as the ???marginalist revolution???. This book is an investigation into the cultural and intellectual resources that Jevons drew upon to revolutionize research methods in economics. Jevons??'s uniform approach to the sciences was based on a firm belief in the mechanical constitution of the universe and a firm conviction that all scientific knowledge was limited and therefore hypothetical in character. Jevons??'s mechanical beliefs found their way into his early meteorological studies, his formal logic, and his economic pursuits. By using mechanical analogies as instruments of discovery, Jevons was able to bridge the divide between theory and statistics that had become more or less institutionalized in mid nineteenth???century Britain. |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Business & Economics | Economic History - Business & Economics | Economics - Theory |
| Dewey: 330.157 |
| LCCN: 2004052546 |
| Series: Historical Perspectives on Modern Economics |
| Physical Information: 0.93" H x 6.36" W x 9.22" (1.30 lbs) 354 pages |
| Themes: - Chronological Period - 19th Century |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: The Victorian polymath William Stanley Jevons (1835-82) is generally and rightly venerated as one of the great innovators of economic theory and method in what came to be known as the 'marginalist revolution'. This book is an investigation into the cultural and intellectual resources that Jevons drew upon to revolutionize research methods in economics. Jevons's uniform approach to the sciences was based on a firm belief in the mechanical constitution of the universe and a firm conviction that all scientific knowledge was limited and therefore hypothetical in character. Jevons's mechanical beliefs found their way into his early meteorological studies, his formal logic, and his economic pursuits. By using mechanical analogies as instruments of discovery, Jevons was able to bridge the divide between theory and statistics that had become more or less institutionalized in mid nineteenth-century Britain. |