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Jevons, William Stanley 1835-1882

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Portrait of Jevons, William Stanley 1835-1882

Born 1835 · died 1882

William Stanley Jevons was an English economist and logician.

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Personal and professional papers, the former consisting of correspondence with other members of the Jevons family and his journals, the latter of his correspondence with economists, the manuscripts of his published books and articles, and other related papers. Jevons papers, Manchester JRUL

Tables of statistics, charts and some other manuscripts mainly connected with the circulation of gold coins.

Royal Statistical Society. 19

Notes taken by Jevons from the mathematical lectures of Augustus de Morgan, 1852-1853 and 1860-1861, and also from de Morgan's published mathematical tracts. Glasgow UL

Correspondents

HERBERT SOMERTON FOXWELL, 50 letters, 1874-1882, in RDFC

Printed Material

Papers and Correspondence of William Stanley Jevons , ed. R. D. Collison Black, 7 vols., (London, 1972-1981).

New Palgrave ; ODNB; Boase II 96; ESS VIII 389; IESS VIII 254.

Portraits: NPG (A); see Papers and Correspondence (above).

 

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Jevons, William Stanley 1835-1882. “Archival papers.” Economists’ Papers, https://www.economistspapers.org.uk/jevons-william-stanley-1835-1882/ (accessed 12 Jul 2026).