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William Stanley Jevons

1835 - 1882

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William Stanley Jevons (; 1 September 1835 – 13 August 1882) was an English economist and logician. Irving Fisher described Jevons's book A General Mathematical Theory of Political Economy (1862) as the start of 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. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. William Stanley Jevons is the 85th most popular economist (down from 48th in 2019), the 894th most popular biography from United Kingdom (down from 502nd in 2019) and the 14th most popular British Economist.

William Stanley Jevons is most famous for his work in the field of economics. He was one of the first economists to use mathematics to analyze economic problems.

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Among ECONOMISTS

Among economists, William Stanley Jevons ranks 85 out of 414. Before him are Tjalling Koopmans, Oliver E. Williamson, Albert O. Hirschman, James M. Buchanan, Cornelius Castoriadis, and Eugen Dühring. After him are Irving Fisher, Nikolai Kondratiev, Dani Rodrik, Johann Heinrich von Thünen, Robert Reich, and Henry Mintzberg.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1835, William Stanley Jevons ranks 19. Before him are Samuel Butler, Henryk Wieniawski, César Cui, Eduard Strauss, Mirza Ghulam Ahmad, and Fukuzawa Yukichi. After him are Nikolai Rubinstein, Alexander Agassiz, Leopold, Prince of Hohenzollern, Hijikata Toshizō, John La Farge, and Maria Alexandrovna Ulyanova. Among people deceased in 1882, William Stanley Jevons ranks 15. Before him are Francesco Hayez, Bruno Bauer, Léon Gambetta, Louis Blanc, Joseph Liouville, and John Nelson Darby. After him are Vasily Perov, Thomas Hill Green, Princess Maria Pia of Bourbon-Two Sicilies, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Karl-Maria Kertbeny, and Friedrich Reinhold Kreutzwald.

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In United Kingdom

Among people born in United Kingdom, William Stanley Jevons ranks 894 out of 8,785. Before him are Eugen d'Albert (1864), John Henry Newman (1801), Kathleen Ferrier (1912), Sarah Churchill, Duchess of Marlborough (1660), Charles Lee (1731), and Bernard Hill (1944). After him are A. S. Neill (1883), Steve Harris (1956), Peter Finch (1916), J. L. Austin (1911), John Frederic Daniell (1790), and Thomas Savery (1650).

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Among ECONOMISTS In United Kingdom

Among economists born in United Kingdom, William Stanley Jevons ranks 14. Before him are John Hicks (1904), William Petty (1623), Ronald Coase (1910), Lionel Robbins (1898), Benjamin Graham (1894), and Beatrice Webb (1858). After him are Richard Stone (1913), John A. Hobson (1858), James Meade (1907), Arthur Cecil Pigou (1877), Thomas Mun (1571), and James Mirrlees (1936).

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