Jevons, William (1835–1882)
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 7077162 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Milan Zafirovski (0000-0002-6823-8977, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2007 |
| Publication date | 2007-02-15 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | OTHER |
| Venue | The Blackwell Encyclopedia of Sociology (JOURNAL) |
| Publisher | Wiley (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1002/9781405165518.wbeosj004 |
| OpenAlex | W4254556819 |
| ISBN | 9781405165518 |
| Language | EN |
| References cited | 6 |
William Stanley Jevons is best known as an early influential British neoclassical and utilitarian economist mostly influenced by and developing Benthamite utilitarianism (Schumpeter 1991). More precisely, he is renowned among economists as one the founders (alongside Carl Menger and Leon Walras) of marginalism or marginal utility theory (during the 1870s) as what economist‐sociologist Schumpeter (1954) describes as a Copernican Revolution in economics (for more on Jevons as an economist, see Mosselmans & White 2000). Overall, his sociologically minded disciple Philip Wicksteed (1905) describes Jevons as “one of the most powerful, bold, and original thinkers” in economics. While virtually unknown or neglected among sociologists, curiously enough, Jevons can probably be credited (Swedberg 2003) with inventing the term economic sociology (in the second 1879 edition of his main work, the Theory of Political Economy ), though not the idea or concept. The idea of economic sociology is already contained or germane in Comte, especially his notion of social economy, as a branch of sociology distinguished from orthodox economics, and of the “economy of real society” subject to “sociological research
Economics · Epistemology · Neoclassical economics · Positive economics · Schools of economic thought · Social science · Sociology · Utilitarianism · Economic Theory and Institutions · Philosophy · Political Economy and Marxism
| Citation velocity | historical |
|---|---|
| Highly cited | No |