William Stanley Jevons and the Marginal Revolution

William Stanley Jevons occupies a pivotal position in the history of economic thought, spanning the transition from classical to neo-classical economics and playing a key role in the Marginal Revolution.

The breadth of Jevons's work is examined here which:

• includes a detailed consideration of a wide range of his work—policy, theoretical, methodological, applied, and empirical
• relies on textual exegis
• takes account of a wide range of secondary sources

A new approach to the Jevonian revolution is adopted, which emphasizes the link between poverty and economics and focuses on the nature and meaning of rationality in Jevonian economics.