Frases de William Stanley Jevons
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William Stanley Jevons foi um economista britânico.

Foi um dos fundadores da Economia Neoclássica e formulador da teoria da utilidade marginal, que imprimiu novo rumo ao pensamento econômico mundial, especialmente no que se refere à questão da determinação do valor, solucionando o paradoxo utilidade na determinação dos valores das coisas que até então confundia os economistas.

Inicialmente estudou química e botânica, e depois lógica e economia no University College de Londres onde assumiria a cadeira de economia política na University College, até se aposentar e tornou-se conhecido pela originalidade de suas teorias.

Brilhante escritor, e que teve ampla influência, sua obra capital foi Theory of Political Economy , livro de importância relevante na história do pensamento econômico, em que expôs de forma definitiva a teoria da utilidade marginal, desenvolvida paralelamente por Carl Menger em Viena e Léon Walras na França.

Outros livros importantes seus foram A Serious Fall in the Value of Gold , Jevons lançou The Coal Question . Outros escritos foram reunidos no livro póstumo Investigations on Currency and Finance , em que examina o problema das flutuações econômicas. Defendia o uso da economia matemática, pois a economia lidava com quantidades e formulou a equação de trocas, que estabelecia a igualdade entre a utilidade marginal do item consumido e seu preço.[carece de fontes?]Estudou as relações entre as necessidades materiais e o estímulo ao trabalho, tendo chegado a conclusões que - embora hoje pareçam curiosas - estavam alinhadas com o mainstream do pensamento econômico liberal e dos marginalistas de sua época:



É evidente que problemas desse tipo dependem muito da índole ou da raça. Pessoas de temperamento enérgico acham o trabalho menos penoso que seus camaradas e, se elas são dotadas de sensibilidade variada e profunda, nunca cessa seu desejo por novas aquisições. Um homem de raça inferior, um negro, por exemplo, aprecia menos as posses e detesta mais o trabalho; seus esforços portanto, param logo.Morreu em Bexhill, Inglaterra, com apenas 47 anos, vítima de um afogamento acidental. Tinha, também, conhecimentos práticos de Física, Metalurgia e Meteorologia e deixou inacabados um ensaio sobre religião e ciência, um estudo sobre a filosofia de John Stuart Mill e a obra Principles of Economy. Wikipedia  

✵ 1. Setembro 1835 – 13. Agosto 1882
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William Stanley Jevons: Frases em inglês

“The difficulties of economics are mainly the difficulties of conceiving clearly and fully the conditions of utility.”

William Stanley Jevons The Theory of Political Economy

Fonte: The Theory of Political Economy (1871), Chapter III, Theory of Utility, p. 82.

“Over-production is not possible in all branches of industry at once, but it is possible in some as compared to others.”

William Stanley Jevons The Theory of Political Economy

Fonte: The Theory of Political Economy (1871), Chapter V, Theory of Labour, p. 172.

“It is clear that economics, if it is to be a science at all, must be a mathematical science.”

William Stanley Jevons The Theory of Political Economy

Fonte: The Theory of Political Economy (1871), Chapter I, Introduction, p. 38.

“A spade may be made of any size, and if the same number of strokes be made in the hour, the requisite exertion will vary nearly as the cube of the length of the blade.”

William Stanley Jevons The Theory of Political Economy

Fonte: The Theory of Political Economy (1871), Chapter V, Theory of Labour, p. 173.

“One pound invested for five years gives the same result as five pounds invested for one year, the product being five pound years.”

William Stanley Jevons The Theory of Political Economy

Fonte: The Theory of Political Economy (1871), Chapter VII, Theory of Capital, p. 190.

“I feel quite unable to adopt the opinion that the moment goods pass into the possession of the consumer they cease altogether to have the attributes of capital.”

William Stanley Jevons The Theory of Political Economy

Fonte: The Theory of Political Economy (1871), Chapter VII, Theory of Capital, p. 209.

“but, in reality, there is no such thing as an exact science.”

William Stanley Jevons The Theory of Political Economy

Fonte: The Theory of Political Economy (1871), Chapter I, Introduction, p. 40.

“What capital I give for the spade merely replaces what the manufacturer had already invested in the expectation that the spade would be needed.”

William Stanley Jevons The Theory of Political Economy

Fonte: The Theory of Political Economy (1871), Chapter VII, Theory of Capital, p. 188.

“Some of the gold possessed by the Romans is doubtless mixed with what we now possess; and some small part of it will be handed down as long as the human race exists.”

William Stanley Jevons The Theory of Political Economy

Fonte: The Theory of Political Economy (1871), Chapter VII, Theory of Capital, p. 198.

“By a commodity we shall understand any object, substance, action or service, which can afford pleasure or ward off pain.”

William Stanley Jevons The Theory of Political Economy

Fonte: The Theory of Political Economy (1871), Chapter III, Theory of Utility, p. 61.

“that in the same open market, at any one moment, there cannot be two prices for the same kind of article”

William Stanley Jevons The Theory of Political Economy

Fonte: The Theory of Political Economy (1871), Chapter IV, Theory of Exchange, p. 97.

“Repeated reflection and inquiry have led me to the somewhat novel opinion, that value depends entirely upon utility.”

William Stanley Jevons The Theory of Political Economy

Fonte: The Theory of Political Economy (1871), Chapter I, Introduction, p. 37.

“we often observe that there is abundance of capital to be had at low rates of interest, while there are also large numbers of artisans starving for want of employment.”

William Stanley Jevons The Theory of Political Economy

Fonte: The Theory of Political Economy (1871), Chapter VIII, Concluding Remarks, p. 215.

“We shall never have a science of economics unless we learn to discern the operation of law even among the most perplexing complications and apparent interruptions.”

William Stanley Jevons The Theory of Political Economy

Fonte: The Theory of Political Economy (1871), Chapter IV, Theory of Exchange, p. 110.

“[F]acts are valueless unless connected and explained by a correct theory; […] analogies are very dangerous grounds of inference, unless carefully founded on similar conditions; […] experience misleads if it be misinterpreted.”

"The Railways and the State." https://archive.org/stream/essaysaddresses00oweniala#page/467/mode/2up In Essays and Addresses, Macmillan & Co., 1874, page 467.

“One of the first and most difficult steps in a science is to conceive clearly the nature of the magnitudes about which we are arguing.”

William Stanley Jevons The Theory of Political Economy

Fonte: The Theory of Political Economy (1871), Chapter III, Theory of Utility, p. 78.