...Sandra J. Peart Margaret Schabas. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1990. 192 pp. Copyright © 1992 by Duke University Press 1992 Book Reviews 763 A World Ruled by Number: William Stanley Jevons and the Rise of Mathe- matical...

... . The Correspondence between George Boole and Stanley Jevons, 1863-1864. History and Philosophy of Logic 12 : 15 -35. ____. 1994 . “A new type of question”: On the Prehistory of Linear and Non-linear Programming, 1770-1940. In vol. 3 of History of Modern Mathematics , edited by E. Knobloch and D. Rowe, 43 -89...

.... Jevons, W. Stanley. [1874] 1958 . The Principles of Science: A Treatise on Logic and Scientific Method . New York: Dover. ____. 1972-81 . Papers and Correspondence . 7 vols. Edited by R. D. C. Black and R. Könekamp. London: Macmillan. Sánchez Valencia, Victor. 2001 . An Athenaeum Curiosity...

...Simon Cook . By Harro Maas. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2005. xxii; 330 pp. $75.00. 2007 Book Reviews William Stanley Jevons and the Making of Modern Economics. By Harro Maas. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2005. xxii; 330 pp. $75.00. Harro Maas has produced...

... policy and those of the profes- sion, and because of the wealth of astute observation which came from this inter- esting assemblage of people. Duke University CRAUFURDD. GOODWIN Papers and correspondence of William Stanley Jevons, Volumes I-VII. Edited by R...

...David Stack This article explores the basis for the well-known hostility of William Stanley Jevons toward John Stuart Mill, and offers an alternative explanation to those which have hitherto dominated discussion. After reviewing the importance of disagreements over economic doctrine and questions...

... . Copyright © 2018 Duke University Press 2018 John Stuart Mill William Stanley Jevons social and economic value of unpaid domestic work productive/unproductive labor distinction conceptions of economics References Barker Drucilla K . 2005 . “ Beyond Women and Economics: Rereading...

.... Amount and Condition of the Gold Coinage. 1868 . Economist , 12 December, 1412 -14. Black, R. D. C. 1981 . William Stanley Jevons 1835-82. In Pioneers of Modern Economics , edited by D. P. O'Brien and John R. Presley, 1 -35. London:Macmillan. Cairnes, J. E. C. 1863a .. Have the Discoveries...

...Pedro Garcia Duarte Although economists recognized long ago that “time enters into all economic questions,” as William Stanley Jevons wrote, the ways they treated and modeled time varied substantially in the last century. While in the 1920s there was a distinctive Cambridge tradition against...

...Michael V. White; Takutoshi Inoue In his 1936 memoir of W. Stanley Jevons, J. M. Keynes argued that Jevons's pronounced hostility to the dominance of J. S. Mill's political economy was due, in large part, to the imposition of Mill's work on Jevons's teaching at Owens College (subsequently...

... inferential issues confronting economists were ideological or political in nature. Two case studies are examined, Stanley Jevons’s price index and the Board of Trade’s cost-of-living index, that sharpen the focus on the accuracy of index numbers. What did index numbers really capture about the deterioration...

... accounting for two Victorians, George Eliot and William Stanley Jevons, in more detail. The philosopher of mind Alexander Bain recommended the use of mercantile accounting tools, Benjamin Franklin's moral algebra in particular, to harness the mind against emotional and myopic decision making. Bain's...

... in labor camps. The last example concerns the work of Stanley Mathewson, published as Restriction of Output among Unorganized Workers (1931). Mathewson’s study was an early example of the use of participant observation methods in industrial sociology and was widely influential. How this varied...

...Stanley Hauerwas In this brief response to Brad Bateman's address I suggest that Adam Smith's contribution to “economics” is more nuanced than many of his interpreters suggest when they characterize him as a utilitarian. Rather what Smith provided was an intellectual expression of “economics...

... Black, R. D. Collison. 1972 . Jevons, Bentham, and De Morgan. Economica , n.s., 39 : 119 –34. ———. [1972] 1988 . Jevons, Bentham, and De Morgan. In vol. 1 of William Stanley Jevons: Critical Assessments , edited by J. Wood. London: Routledge. Blaug, M. 1968 . Economic Theory...

...Michael V. White Copyright © 1989 by Duke University Press 1989 References Black , R. D. C. , 1973 . Papers and correspondence of William Stanley Jevons . Vol. 2. London: Macmillan. Black , R. D. C. , 1981 . Papers and correspondence of William Stanley Jevons . Vol. 7...

... and the Foundation of Modem Economics. HOPE 4.2:362-78. . 1981. William Stanley Jevons 1835-82. In Pioneers of Modern Econom- ics, edited by D. l? O’Brien and John R. Presley. London: Macmillan. Blake, Ralph M., Curt J. Ducasse and Edward Madden. 1960a. J. S. Mill’s System of Logic...

... Schabas (1990), and Harro Maas (2005) documented the role of physics in the economic works of Augustin Cournot and William Stanley Jevons.6 Financial economics, and more generally finance, has also been sub- ject to the influence of physics. One of the first authors to bring physics closer...

... Organization , edited by Leonid Hurwicz, David Schmeidler, and Hugo Sonnenschein. New York: Cambridge University Press. ____. 1986 . On Informational Decentralization and Efficiency in Resource Allocation Mechanisms. In Studies in Mathematical Economics , edited by Stanley Reiter. Washington, D.C...

... : 214 -32. Black , R. D. C. 1977 . Papers and correspondence of William Stanley Jevons , vol. 3 . London. Black , R. D. C. 1977a . Papers and correspondence of William Stanley Jevons , vol. 4 . London. Black , R. D. C. 1977b . Papers and correspondence of William Stanley...