Jevons’s One Great Disciple: Wicksteed and the Jevonian Revolution in the Second Generation

Paul Flatau

History of Economics Review, 2004, vol. 40, issue 1, 69-107

Abstract: This paper evaluates Wicksteed’s role in the propagation of Jevonian marginalism into the second generation against the backdrop of Wicksteed’s explicit identification with the economics of Jevons and his avowed aim to explain and extend the Jevonian framework. The paper focuses primarily, but not solely, on Wicksteed’s theory of distribution, which is arguably his most important contribution to economic theory, and answers the following questions: shouldWicksteed’s contributions be read as a simple extension of Jevons’s work or did Wicksteed take the Jevonian revolution on new and different paths? If so, on what course didWicksteed steer Jevonian economics?

Date: 2004
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DOI: 10.1080/18386318.2004.11681191

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