1. Jevons - Noun
2. Jevons - Proper noun
English economist and logician who contributed to the development of the theory of marginal utility (1835-1882)
Source: WordNetJevons saw the kettle boil and cried out with the delighted voice of a child; Marshall too had seen the kettle boil and sat down silently to build an engine. John Maynard Keynes
According to economist William Stanley Jevons (1875), representative money arose because metal coins often were "variously clipped or depreciated" during use, but using representations for the value stored in banks ensured its worth. Source: Internet
All quotes from W. Stanley Jevons 1880 Elementary Lessons in Logic: Deductive and Inductive, Macmillan and Co., London and New York. Source: Internet
Here's how William Stanley Jevons presented "the problem of Economics". Source: Internet
William Stanley Jevons predicted rising gold supply would cause inflation decades before it actually did. Source: Internet
Economist W.S. Jevons astounded the British Association for the Advancement of Science in 1878 by postulating that ups and downs in the economy were caused by sunspot cycles, which he said governed agricultural cycles. Source: Internet