William Stanley Jevons

William Stanley Jevons (1 September 1835–13 August 1882) was a British economist. He was particularly known for discovering the marginal utility approach in price theory, at the same time as Léon Walras and Carl Menger.

He is also notable for popularizing the Essai, a largely unnoticed magnum opus of Richard Cantillon, which Jevons declared to be, "more emphatically than any other single work, the Cradle of Political Economy".

Works

 * Elementary Lessons in Logic
 * Money and the Mechanism of Exchange
 * The Theory of Political Economy
 * The Coal Question

Links

 * Carl Menger: Pioneer of "Empirical Theory" by Jörg Guido Hülsmann, December 2007 (about the background of the marginal utility theory)