Jevons' Paradoxes: William Stanley Jevons and the Roots of Biophysical and Neoclassical Economics
In: SpringerBriefs in Energy Ser.
Intro -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction -- References -- Contents -- 1 Good Jevons, Bad Jevons: William Stanley Jevons and the Roots of Biophysical and Neoclassical Economics -- Introduction -- Jevons and the Marginal Revolution -- The Transition from Classical Political Economy to Neoclassical Economics -- The Physiocrats and Adam Smith -- The Origin of Classical Political Economy and the Role of Labor -- Theories of Value and the Division of Labor -- From the Division of Labor to the Labor Theory of Value -- Smith's Views on Scarcity and Surplus -- Human Population Growth -- The Corn Laws, Accumulation, and the Stationary State -- Another Man's Paradox -- Post-Ricardian Economists: The Ascendency of Utilitarianism and the Precursors of Neoclassical Economics -- Nassau Senior Defends the Manufacturers -- John Stuart Mill and the Apogee of Classical Political Economy -- The Relevance of Mill's Questions to the Great Economic Questions of Today -- Alfred Marshall and the Synthesis of Neoclassical Economics -- Summary: Classical Political Economy, Neoclassical Economics and the Role of Jevons -- Jevons' Place in the History of Economic Thought -- References -- 2 Jevons the Empiricist: Gold -- Coal -- and Sunspots -- Introduction -- Gold and Sunspots -- Sunspot Theory -- The Coal Question -- References -- 3 Jevons the Theorist: The Theory of Political Economy and the Roots of Neoclassical Economics -- Introduction -- The Theory of Political Economy -- Disutility, Discommodity and Dimension -- The Theory of Exchange -- The Theory of Labour -- Rent and Capital -- References -- 4 Energy, Labor, and the Industrial Revolution -- Introduction -- Coal, Population, and the Elizabethan Leap: The Origins of Coal in the 1500s -- Coal and Wood -- Coal and Water -- Labor and the Overproduction Crises -- Coal and Monopoly -- References.