Effetti ottici e strategie retoriche
William Stanley Jevons e la matematizzazione dell’economia
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https://doi.org/10.54103/2239-5474/29866Keywords:
William Stanley Jevons, Political Economy, Mathematics, Utility, Sign, Authority, Public Sphere, CharacterAbstract
Optical Effects and Rhetorical Strategies: William Stanley Jevons and Mathematical Political Economy
This article examines the reasons and consequences of Victorian economist William Stanley Jevons’s choice to apply the mathematical language to political economy. I first analyse Jevons’s justification for his decision. I argue that Jevons overlooked the creative power of the mathematical language, leading the economists to consider natural phenomena to be mathematical in themselves. I explain that Jevons’s choice was political, arguing that he aimed to support the public authority of the economics by making political economy a mathematical science.
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