A text-book on Logic, such as Jevons's, should be used to illustrate the kinds of argument more fully. From Wordnik.com. [English: Composition and Literature] Reference
“neoclassical” economists such as Jevons held that agents make consumption choices so as to maximize their own happiness. From Wordnik.com. [Philosophy of Economics] Reference
Black (1995) recognizes that, after 1867, Jevons '. From Wordnik.com. [William Stanley Jevons] Reference
In his earliest work on logic Jevons used the symbol. From Wordnik.com. [William Stanley Jevons] Reference
According to Jevons this is an important method, since. From Wordnik.com. [William Stanley Jevons] Reference
The Jevons paradox and the myth of resource efficiency. From Wordnik.com. [Herman Daly Festschrift~ The world is in over-shoot and what to do about it] Reference
Jevons defines the concept ˜term™ in his Pure Logic. From Wordnik.com. [William Stanley Jevons] Reference
Bit like Hitler and his reading glasses, thought Jevons. From Wordnik.com. [Whispers Of Betrayal]
Jevons left University College without taking his degree. From Wordnik.com. [William Stanley Jevons] Reference
Jevons in 1878 in some researches on the "Brownian movement" or. From Wordnik.com. [The Handbook of Soap Manufacture] Reference
Jevons begins his very interesting book on money by relating how. From Wordnik.com. [The Unity of Civilization] Reference
Jevons indicates that traditional syllogistic forms such as Barbara. From Wordnik.com. [William Stanley Jevons] Reference
Bendall was drawing closer to Jevons in order to make himself heard. From Wordnik.com. [Whispers Of Betrayal]
It follows that Jevons regards the Laws of Thought as objective laws. From Wordnik.com. [William Stanley Jevons] Reference
At last Jevons thought he had caught up with where this one was going. From Wordnik.com. [Whispers Of Betrayal]
Jevons 'short life came to an end in 1882, when he drowned near Hastings. From Wordnik.com. [William Stanley Jevons] Reference
It was at this point that Jevons had told him about Payne's stubborn silence. From Wordnik.com. [Whispers Of Betrayal]
This is especially true of Gossen and Edgeworth and, to some extent, of Jevons. From Wordnik.com. [Dictionary of the History of Ideas] Reference
Jevons himself began by emphasizing that “value depends entirely on utility.”. From Wordnik.com. [Dictionary of the History of Ideas] Reference
In order to represent disjunctive propositions, Jevons suggests to use the symbol. From Wordnik.com. [William Stanley Jevons] Reference
Jevons 'use of statistics in the social sciences was inspired by Adolphe Quetelet. From Wordnik.com. [William Stanley Jevons] Reference
Jevons paused before replying, uncertain in which new direction they were heading. From Wordnik.com. [Whispers Of Betrayal]
In 1867 Jevons married Harriet A. Taylor, and they subsequently had three children. From Wordnik.com. [William Stanley Jevons] Reference
Jevons examined the lines of the well-cut suit, and concluded he was watching an act. From Wordnik.com. [Whispers Of Betrayal]
Jevons argues that these Laws are true both “in the nature of thought and things”. From Wordnik.com. [William Stanley Jevons] Reference
Jevons left Australia in 1859 and returned to University College to complete his education. From Wordnik.com. [William Stanley Jevons] Reference
Jevons does not define the concept of “identity”, and tends to regard it as self-evident. From Wordnik.com. [William Stanley Jevons] Reference
The preceding picture is foreign to the utility theory launched by Gossen, Jevons, and Walras. From Wordnik.com. [Dictionary of the History of Ideas] Reference
The prestige of Jevons added to that of Bentham sufficed to enthrone “utility” in economics. From Wordnik.com. [Dictionary of the History of Ideas] Reference
Jevons needs to bring in principles of number and theory of probability to deal with this matter. From Wordnik.com. [William Stanley Jevons] Reference
Jevons denotes terms by capital letters A, B, C, etc. and their negative counterparts by small italic letters. From Wordnik.com. [William Stanley Jevons] Reference
This attitude was inspired by the progressive and Unitarian middle-class background from which Jevons emerged. From Wordnik.com. [William Stanley Jevons] Reference
In the following passage from Theory of Political Economy, Jevons defends the claim that his theory is scientific. From Wordnik.com. [Neoclassical economic theory] Reference
Several logicians opted for what Jevons calls the “indeterminate adjective” ˜some™, represented symbolically by. From Wordnik.com. [William Stanley Jevons] Reference
Menger's nonmathematical approach soon died away under the mathematical landslide caused in economics by Jevons and Walras. From Wordnik.com. [Dictionary of the History of Ideas] Reference
Jevons failed to anticipate the fact that as the price of an energy source rises, firms have an incentive to develop substitutes. From Wordnik.com. [Jevons, William Stanley] Reference
Sometimes this is called a rebound effect, and Jevons paradox is when the rebound is greater than 100%, so exceeding the efficiency gains. From Wordnik.com. [Bernie Bulkin: The Real Paradox of Energy Efficiency] Reference
The three discoverers used other names: Jevons had called it “final degree of utility,” Menger simply “importance” or “meaning”. From Wordnik.com. [ECONOMIC HISTORY] Reference
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