Jevons

[ jev-uhnz ]

noun
  1. William Stanley, 1835–82, English economist and logician.

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How to use Jevons in a sentence

  • Mr. Jevons speaks of Agamemnon's "confidence in the delusive dream" as at variance with his proceedings, and would excise II.

    Homer and His Age | Andrew Lang
  • His father, Thomas Jevons, a man of strong scientific tastes and a writer on legal and economic subjects, was an iron merchant.

  • As Jevons says: "A word with two distinct meanings is really two words."

    The Art of Logical Thinking | William Walker Atkinson
  • Strictly speaking, the first statement of Jevons is too narrow.

    How We Think | John Dewey
  • However, Mr. Jevons thinks that rhapsodists, anxious to recite straight on from the dream to the battle, added II.

    Homer and His Age | Andrew Lang

British Dictionary definitions for Jevons

Jevons

/ (ˈdʒɛvənz) /


noun
  1. William Stanley. 1835–82, English economist and logician: introduced the concept of final or marginal utility in The Theory of Political Economy (1871)

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