{"product_id":"9783032187307","title":"Science and Society in William Stanley Jevons's Thought: Improvement through Knowledge","description":"\u003ch1\u003eScience and Society in William Stanley Jevons's Thought: Improvement through Knowledge\u003c\/h1\u003e \u003ch2\u003eBuono, Eleonora\u003c\/h2\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis open access book deals with the ideas and work of William Stanley Jevons (1835 – 1882). Jevons is now mainly known as an economist. His revision of the theory of value and the definition of the principle of decreasing marginal utility gained him a prominent place in the history of economic thought. However, Jevons’s oeuvre goes far beyond his contribution to economics. He was a logician and a natural scientist. Jevons was always a godly man, and his religious beliefs, far from being a merely private aspect, were highly influential in his works. He was interested in evolutionism, and especially in Herbert Spencer’s philosophy. This book explores Jevons’s work as a Victorian social scientist, who was committed to understand the natural laws regulating human society in order to improve it. The book explores several different facets of Jevons's thought, such as: his religious views, in connection with scientific method and study of probability; the link between nineteenth-century Unitarianism, the branch of Dissent of which Jevons was part, and his moral and political thought; the role played by Herbert Spencer’s thought in Jevons’s political philosophy; the relevance of his religious views, philosophy of logic, moral and political thought to his economic theory.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003ch3\u003eDetails\u003c\/h3\u003e \u003cp\u003ePublished by: Palgrave Macmillan\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003ePublication Date: 2026-05-05\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eFormat: Hardcover\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eISBN-13: 9783032187307\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eDOI: 10.1007\/978-3-032-18731-4\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eDimensions: 210cm x148cm\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003ePages: 361\u003c\/p\u003e ","brand":"Springer Nature Switzerland","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":45938033131660,"sku":"9783032187307","price":53.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0710\/9545\/1788\/files\/9783032187307.jpg?v=1779972977","url":"https:\/\/fh90cf-fv.myshopify.com\/products\/9783032187307","provider":"Late Knight Books and Services, LLC","version":"1.0","type":"link"}