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Jevons

noun
1.
English economist and logician who contributed to the development of the theory of marginal utility (1835-1882).  Synonym: William Stanley Jevons.





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... ode was "not one passion, but a congress of passions," and declared it the most perfect expression in all ancient literature of the effects of love. A Greek physician is said to have copied it into his book of diagnoses "as a compendium of all the symptoms of corroding emotion." F.B. Jevons, in his history of Greek literature (139), speaks of the "marvellous fidelity in her representation of the passion of love." Long before him Addison had written in the Spectator (No. 223) that Sappho "felt the passion in all its ...
— Primitive Love and Love-Stories • Henry Theophilus Finck
... and subject-matter were originally still more completely simplified, 'quantitative' methods have since Jevons's time tended to take the place of 'qualitative'. How far is a ...
— Human Nature In Politics - Third Edition • Graham Wallas


Words linked to "Jevons" :   William Stanley Jevons, economic expert, economist, logistician, logician


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