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William Stanley Jevons

In: Essays in Biography

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  • John Maynard Keynes

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Stanley Jevons was born in the year after Malthus’s death. But he was only seven years senior to Marshall and ten years senior to Edgeworth. Professor Foxwell lectured in his stead at University College before Jevons took up his professorship there. He examined my father in the Moral Sciences Tripos of 1875, his name being known to me from my early years as, in my father’s mind, the pattern of what an economist and logician should be. Thus, though we celebrate to-day (a little late) the centenary of his birth, though it is sixty years ago that Professor Foxwell lectured in his stead and more than fifty years since his death; nevertheless, Jevons belongs to the group of economists whose school of thought dominated the subject for the half-century after the death of Mill in 1873, who are the immediate teachers and predecessors of ourselves here assembled to pay our duty to his memory.2

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  • John Maynard Keynes, 2010. "William Stanley Jevons," Palgrave Macmillan Books, in: Essays in Biography, chapter 0, pages 109-160, Palgrave Macmillan.
    • Handle: RePEc:pal:palchp:978-1-349-59074-2_13
    DOI: 10.1007/978-1-349-59074-2_13
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