Harro Maas

William Stanley Jevons and the Making of Modern Economics

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Produktbeschreibung

This book examines William Stanley Jevons's role in revolutionizing nineteenth-century economics.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 354
• Erscheinungstermin: 30. Juni 2010
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 21mm
• Gewicht: 575g
• ISBN-13: 9780521154734
• ISBN-10: 0521154731
• Artikelnr.: 31188452

Autorenporträt

Harro Maas is lecturer in History and Methodology of Economics at the University of Amsterdam. He is an associate researcher at the Centre for Philosophy of the Natural and Social Sciences at the London School of Economics. Dr Maas''s research has been published in the History of Political Economy, Studies in History and Philosophy of Science, and the Revue d''Histoire des Sciences Humaines.

Inhaltsangabe

1. The prying eyes of the natural scientist
2. William Stanley Jevons: Victorian polymath
3. The black arts of induction
4. Mimetic experiments
5. Engines of discovery
6. The machinery of the mind
7. The private laboratory of the mind
8. The laws of human enjoyment
9. Timing history
10. Balancing acts
11. The image of economics.