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William Stanley Jevons | Biography, History, Theory & Political Economics
William Stanley Jevons was an English economist and logician, known for pioneering the Marginalist Revolution and for his use of the differential calculus in economics.
William Stanley Jevons (1835-1882) was born in Liverpool to a wealthy merchant family. He entered University College London , but due to the bankruptcy of the family businesses, he had to withdraw from studies and travel to Sydney, Australia to work for several years at the Mint.