JEVONS (William Stanley).
Investigations in Currency and Finance.
A posthumous collection of essays, produced under the editorship of Herbert S. Foxwell, chiefly concerning the application of statistics to questions of money, prices, and fluctuations. The essays “indicate that [Jevons] was a pioneer in the graphic presentation of economic and financial statistics, adapting for the charting of the economic ‘weather’ the methods used in his meteorological studies. Like Marshall and Pareto, Jevons was one of the few leading late nineteenth-century neoclassical exponents of deductive marginal analysis who also made valuable contributions to statistical and descriptive economics, in ‘an attempt. to substitute exact inquiries, exact numerical calculations, for guess-work and groundless argument’ (p. xxiv)” (IESS).
Batson, p. 95; Einaudi 3064.