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Jevons pioneered the use of mathematics in economics, taking a greater interest in statistics than any of the other great economists.
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Castles, I. (2001). William Stanley Jevons. In: Heyde, C.C., Seneta, E., Crépel, P., Fienberg, S.E., Gani, J. (eds) Statisticians of the Centuries. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4613-0179-0_42
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