William Stanley Jevons

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William Stanley Jevons was a 19th-century English economist and logician known as a founder of the marginal revolution in economics and for his work on utility theory and the theory of value.

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instanceOf academic
economist
human
logician
philosopher of science
academicDegree Bachelor of Arts
birthDate 1835-09-01
birthPlace England
Lancashire
Liverpool
causeOfDeath drowning
countryOfCitizenship United Kingdom
United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland
deathDate 1882-08-13
describedAs 19th-century English economist and logician
educatedAt University College London
University of London
employer Owens College
University College London
University of Manchester
familyName William Stanley Jevons self-linksurface differs
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father Thomas Jevons
fieldOfWork economics
logic
philosophy of science
political economy
fullName William Stanley Jevons self-link
givenName William
influenced Alfred Marshall
Francis Ysidro Edgeworth
neoclassical economics
influencedBy Jeremy Bentham
John Stuart Mill
languageOfWorkOrName English
mother Mary Anne Roscoe
movement marginalism
neoclassical economics
notableFor Jevons paradox
contributions to formal logic
development of marginal utility theory
founding figure of the marginal revolution in economics
sunspot theory of business cycles
work on the theory of value
notableWork Elementary Lessons in Logic
Investigations in Currency and Finance
Money and the Mechanism of Exchange
Principles of Science
The Coal Question
The Theory of Political Economy
occupation economist
logician
university teacher
placeOfDeath Bexhill-on-Sea
England
Sussex
positionHeld logics and philosophy lecturer
professor of political economy
spouse Harriet Ann Taylor
theory marginal utility theory of value
mathematical formulation of utility and exchange
sunspot theory of economic crises

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Alfred Marshall influencedBy William Stanley Jevons
neoclassical economics associatedWith William Stanley Jevons
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Lionel Robbins influencedBy William Stanley Jevons
Francis Ysidro Edgeworth influencedBy William Stanley Jevons
theory of marginal utility historicalRoot William Stanley Jevons
marginal revolution in economics keyFigure William Stanley Jevons
marginal revolution in economics publication William Stanley Jevons
this entity surface form: William Stanley Jevons, The Theory of Political Economy