William Stanley Jevons

Thinkers1835 to 1882Economist and logician

Works

  • The Theory of Political Economy, 1871

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One of the three founders of marginal analysis in economics, alongside Carl Menger and Léon Walras, who reached the idea independently in the early 1870s. Jevons argued that value depends on final degree of utility, the utility of the last increment of a good, and stated economic choice in mathematical terms.

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