Everand Logo

Welcome to Everand!

  • Discover millions of ebooks, audiobooks, and so much more with a free trial

    Only $11.99/month after trial. Cancel anytime.

    Unavailable
    A World Ruled by Number: William Stanley Jevons and the Rise of Mathematical Economics
    Unavailable
    A World Ruled by Number: William Stanley Jevons and the Rise of Mathematical Economics
    Unavailable
    A World Ruled by Number: William Stanley Jevons and the Rise of Mathematical Economics
    Ebook200 pages4 hours

    A World Ruled by Number: William Stanley Jevons and the Rise of Mathematical Economics

    By Margaret Schabas

    ()

    Currently unavailable

    Currently unavailable

    About this ebook

    If any single characteristic differentiates current, neoclassical economics from the classical economics of Adam Smith and David Ricardo, it is the use of mathematics. Pointing to the critical role of William Stanley Jevons (1835-1882), Margaret Schabas demonstrates that the advent of mathematical economics in late Victorian England resulted more from new currents in logic and the philosophy of science than from problems specific to the classical theory of value and distribution.

    Jevons's Principles of Science (1874) was the first book to take issue with John Stuart Mill's faith in inductive reasoning, to assimilate George Boole's mathematical logic, and to discern many of the limitations that beset scientific inquiry. Together with a renewed appreciation for Bentham's utility calculus, these philosophical insights served to convince Jevons and his followers that the economic world is fundamentally quantitative and thus amenable to mathematical analysis.

    Originally published in 1990.

    The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting them in durable paperback and hardcover editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of books published by Princeton University Press since its founding in 1905.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherPrinceton University Press
    Release dateJul 14, 2014
    ISBN9781400861514
    Unavailable
    A World Ruled by Number: William Stanley Jevons and the Rise of Mathematical Economics

    Read more from Margaret Schabas

    Related to A World Ruled by Number

    Titles in the series (6)

    View More
    View More

    Related ebooks

    Economics For You

    View More
    View More

    Related podcast episodes

    Related articles

    • Article

      Do You Know These Scientific Pioneers?

      Nov 25, 2020

      It’s easy to name science and math geniuses. I can just flip open my old book from the 1960s, which lists “100 Great Scientists”; it contains all the names you’d find on most popular lists of scientific geniuses: Einstein, Newton, Maxwell, Gauss, Boh

      5 min read

    • Article

      Top Ten Unsung Geniuses: For these scientists, success and fame did not come in equal measure.

      Oct 16, 2014

      It’s easy to name science and math geniuses. I can just flip open my old book from the 1960s, which lists “100 Great Scientists”; it contains all the names you’d find on most popular lists of scientific geniuses: Einstein, Newton, Maxwell, Gauss, Boh

      5 min read

    • Article

      Mises’s Human Action and Its Place in Science and Intellectual Culture

      Jan 1, 2020

      I consider Ludwig von Mises’s Human Action: A Treatise on Economics the greatest work in economics and political economy in the twentieth century, and it ranks in the top five books of all time in the discipline, alongside Wealth of Nations by Adam S

      14 min read

    • Article

      The Awards and Rewards of Grasping Infinity

      Sep 19, 2017

      Two mathematicians who made a breakthrough in understanding infinity were recently given a medal. Their work itself reflects an unbounded progress in explanations of reality.

      2 min read

    • Article

      How to Build a Search Engine for Mathematics: The Surprising Power of Neil Sloane’s Encyclopedia of Integer Sequences.: The surprising power of Neil Sloane’s Encyclopedia of Integer Sequences.

      Oct 22, 2015

      On the average summer Saturday, the mathematician Neil Sloane woke up to a crisis. “There are always crises,” he said— albeit crises of the teapot tempest variety. One Saturday over breakfast, he faced an inbox message titled “edits from outer space.

      10 min read

    • Article

      Lessons For A Young Scientist

      Jan 12, 2022

      I sometimes worry that many who would enjoy a scientific career are put off by a narrow and outdated conception of what’s involved. The word “scientist” still conjures up an unworldly image of an Einstein lookalike (male and elderly) or else a youthf

      8 min read

    • Article

      Lessons For A Young Scientist

      Jan 9, 2020

      I sometimes worry that many who would enjoy a scientific career are put off by a narrow and outdated conception of what’s involved. The word “scientist” still conjures up an unworldly image of an Einstein lookalike (male and elderly) or else a youthf

      7 min read

    • Article

      Galileo And The Telescope

      May 3, 2021

      If you were to ever find yourself strolling through the Mueseo Galileo in the city of Florence, Italy, you would likely chance upon a rather ordinary object. At least, that’s what it looks like at first glance. Do give it a second peek, as this relic

      1 min read

    • Article

      Unleash Your Inner Einstein

      Nov 25, 2021

      Unleash Your Inner Einstein
      4 min read

    • Article

      Describing People as Particles Isn’t Always a Bad Idea: Using physics to describe social phenomena can work—if it’s the right physics.

      Feb 11, 2016

      Infomercialist and pop psychologist Barbara De Angelis puts it this way: “Love is a force more formidable than any other.” Whether you agree with her or not, De Angelis is doing something we do all the time—she is using the language of physics to des

      13 min read

    • Article

      Why Mathematicians Should Stop Naming Things After Each Other

      Sep 2, 2020

      Any student of modern math must know what it feels like to drown in a well of telescoping terminology. For a high-profile example, let’s take the Calabi-Yau manifold, made famous by string theory. A Calabi-Yau manifold is a compact, complex Kähler ma

      6 min read

    • Article

      A Peer Review of the March For Science

      Apr 27, 2017

      This past weekend, the March For Science drew hundreds of thousands of scientists and science supporters onto the streets in 600 locations on six continents. It was, by most accounts (including those of science historians), an unprecedented event. Bu

      4 min read

    • Article

      How Math’s Most Famous Proof Nearly Broke

      Dec 20, 2018

      Andrew Wiles gave a series of lectures cryptically titled “Modular Forms, Elliptic Curves, and Galois Representations” at a mathematics conference in Cambridge, England, in June 0f 1993. His argument was long and technical. Finally, 20 minutes into t

      8 min read

    • Article

      How Math’s Most Famous Proof Nearly Broke: Andrew Wiles thought he had a solution to an age-old puzzle. Until it began to unravel.

      May 28, 2015

      Andrew Wiles gave a series of lectures cryptically titled “Modular Forms, Elliptic Curves, and Galois Representations” at a mathematics conference in Cambridge, England, in June 0f 1993. His argument was long and technical. Finally, 20 minutes into t

      8 min read

    • Article

      With Prof Brain Greene

      Dec 31, 2016

      Theoretical physicist Brian Greene has spent his life understanding the gravity of the smallest questions of our Universe. A world leader in superstring theory, Prof Greene is the Director of the Institute for Strings, Cosmology, and Astroparticle Ph

      6 min read

    • Article

      The Keynesian Revolution and Our Empty Economy: We’re All Dead

      Jan 1, 2020

      By Victor V. Claar and Greg Forster New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2019. Pp. xvii, 345. $89 hardcover. Is our economic system struggling on many dimensions? Is the practice of economics responsible for the problems in the economy? Can we identify the

      5 min read

    • Article

      Losing Faith

      Dec 25, 2023

      Losing Faith
      5 min read

    • Article

      Why Science Is Essential, Especially Now, For The Development Of Nations

      Jun 1, 2021

      ONE OF THE MOST important aspects of development is industrialization. For industrialization to happen, it is important for us to understand the principles of scientific advancements. Scientific advancements have been instrumental in the advancement

      3 min read

    • Article

      The Inflated Debate Over Cosmic Inflation

      Jun 1, 2017

      On the morning of Dec. 7, 1979, a 32-year-old Alan Guth woke up with an idea. It had come into his head the previous night, but now, in the light of a California day, he could see the shape of the thing, and was itching to work through the math. He h

      15 min read

    • Article

      No Easy Way To Mastery

      May 22, 2022

      No Easy Way To Mastery
      2 min read

    • Article

      The Twin Prime Hero: Rags, riches, and fame in mathematics.

      Dec 29, 2016

      Yitang “Tom” Zhang spent the seven years following the completion of his Ph.D. in mathematics floating between Kentucky and Queens, working for a chain of Subway restaurants, and doing odd accounting work. Now he is on a lecture tour that includes st

      8 min read

    Reviews for A World Ruled by Number

    0 ratings

    0 ratings0 reviews

    What did you think?

    Tap to rate

    Review must be at least 10 words