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Jevons was the ninth child of Thomas Jevons, a Liverpool iron merchant, and Mary Ann, daughter of William Roscoe, a noted banker, historian and art collector of the same city. The family were Unitarians and Stanley’s background was thus that of a cultured and well-to-do Nonconformist family; but his childhood was shadowed by the death of his mother in 1845, the mental illness of his eldest brother, which began in 1847; and the failure of the family business in 1848.
This chapter was originally published in The New Palgrave: A Dictionary of Economics, 1st edition, 1987. Edited by John Eatwell, Murray Milgate and Peter Newman
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Black, R.D.C. (1987). Jevons, William Stanley (1835–1882). In: The New Palgrave Dictionary of Economics. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/978-1-349-95121-5_1198-1
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