Five papers by William Stanley Jevons (1835-1882), and two by his son, Herbert Stanley Jevons (1875-1955),
to the Society, 1858-59, and 1911-12.

Note: American economist Irving Fisher (1867-1947) described Jevons' book A General Mathematical Theory of Political Economy (published in 1862, three years after his return to England from Sydney) as the start of the mathematical method in economics. Jevons made the case that economics as a science concerned with quantities is necessarily mathematical.

William Stanley Jevons, [and in the ADB]
(July 8, 1857) On a sun-gauge, or new actinometer,
The Sydney Magazine of Science and Art 1: 58-62, 1858.

William Stanley Jevons,
(Dec. 9, 1857) On clouds -- their various forms and producing causes,
The Sydney Magazine of Science and Art 1: 163-176, 1858.

William Stanley Jevons,
Meteorological observations in Australia,
The Sydney Magazine of Science and Art 2: 161-167, 173-181, 1859.

William Stanley Jevons,
Remarks on the geological origin of Australia,
The Sydney Magazine of Science and Art 2: 89-93, 1859.

William Stanley Jevons,
Earthquakes in New South Wales,
The Sydney Magazine of Science and Art 2: 93-94, 1859.


Herbert Stanley Jevons, H. I. Jensen, T. Griffith Taylor, and C. A. Süssmilch,
26. The geology and petrography of the Prospect Intrusion.
Journal and Proceedings of the Royal Society of New South Wales 45: 445-553, 1911.

Herbert Stanley Jevons, H. I. Jensen, and C. A. Süssmilch,
4. The differentiation phenomena of the Prospect Intrusion.
Journal and Proceedings of the Royal Society of New South Wales 46: 111-138, 1912.


John Maynard Keynes.
William Stanley Jevons, 1835-1882, A centenary allocution on his life and work as an economist and statistician. Read before the Royal Statistical Society, London, on April 21st, 1936.
Journal of the Royal Statistical Society, 99: 516-555, 1936.

Ian Castles,
The curious economist: William Stanley Jevons in Sydney, address at the dinner to mark the opening of the exhibition at the Powerhouse Museum, Sydney, on October 28, 2004,
The Curious Economist: William Stanley Jevons in Sydney (2004-2006), and

The curious economist: William Stanley Jevons in Sydney, an edited version of the 2004 address, Journal and Proceedings of the Royal Society of New South Wales 149: 51-58, 2016.

Robert E. Marks, William Stanley Jevons, Fellow of the Philosophical Society of N.S.W., 1856-1859Journal and Proceedings of the Royal Society of New South Wales 149: 59-64, 2016.

 


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