Strange brew: The antinomies of distribution in W.S. Jevons' Theory of Political Economy *
In the Preface to the second edition of his Theory of Political Economy (1879), W. Stanley Jevons announced an extraordinary turn in his analysis as he abandoned much of the explanatory framework used in the body of the text to explain cost of production and distribution. It is shown here that, when the Theory is read in the context of the objective and structure of Jevons' distribution analysis, the turn can be explained as Jevons' response to the realization that he was only able to reconcile his analysis of cost of production and of distribution in a special case.
Keywords: Jevons; Mill; Ricardo; cost of production; distribution; wages
Document Type: Research Article
Publication date: 01 December 2005
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