A World Ruled by Number: William Stanley Jevons and the Rise of Mathematical Economics

Margaret Schabas

A World Ruled by Number: William Stanley Jevons and the Rise of Mathematical Economics
Format
Hardback
Publisher
Princeton University Press
Country
United States
Published
28 June 2016
Pages
206
ISBN
9780691634807

A World Ruled by Number: William Stanley Jevons and the Rise of Mathematical Economics

Margaret Schabas

If any single characteristic differentiates current, neoclassical economics from the classical economics of Adam Smith and David Ricardo, it is the use of mathematics. Pointing to the critical role of William Stanley Jevons (1835-1882), Margaret Schabas demonstrates that the advent of mathematical economics in late Victorian England resulted more f

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