Oct 12, 2023 - Sale 2648

Sale 2648 - Lot 100

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[Economics] Jevons, William Stanley (1835-1882)
The Theory of Political Economy.

London & New York: Macmillan & Co., 1871.

First edition, octavo, half-title present, bound in full publisher's russet textured cloth, endcaps and corners bumped, small hole in cloth on spine; unopened after page 104 through to the end; contents fresh; housed in custom buckram folding case, 8 3/4 x 5 1/2 in.

"[I]n the Theory of Political Economy, [...] Jevons presented a new approach to value and distribution using metaphors from mechanics. That text, in conjunction with the work of Leon Walras, laid the analytical groundwork for what was subsequently termed microeconomics." (Quoted from Bert Mosselmans's William Stanley Jevons and the Cutting Edge of Economics, Taylor & Francis, 2013.)