Investigations in Currency and Finance.

JEVONS (William Stanley).

Investigations in Currency and Finance.

Edited, with an Introduction, by H.S. Foxwell. First edition. 8vo. xliv, 428 pp., errata slip tipped-in at p. 1, complete with all 20 coloured tables, 9 of which are folding. Original brick-red pebble-grain cloth, spine lettered and ruled in gilt, covers with double blind fillet border (neat contemporary ownership inscription of ‘Charles B. Rogers’ to front free endpaper, later engraved bookplate of ‘Hawthorn Farm’ to front pastedown over an earlier book label, otherwise a near fine, notably bright copy). London, Macmillan and Co, 1884.

£875.00

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.

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