Talk:William Stanley Jevons

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Contents 1 Hagiography 2 Jevons on sunspots 3 Jevons on cryptography 4 WikiProject class rating 5 Badly organised

[edit] Hagiography

There is too much of a hagiographical style in this piece i.e. not NPOV. For instance, the following passage is really an apologia:

In his reaction from the prevailing view he sometimes expressed himself without due qualification: the declaration, for instance, made at the commencement of the Theory of Political Economy, that value depends entirely upon utility,? lent itself to misinterpretation. But a certain exaggeration of emphasis may be pardoned in a writer seeking to attract the attention of an indifferent public.

In fact, this shows a lack of the logic for which the article praises Jevons. And this is about a pivotal concept in the theory!

I also don't know what the "?" means - this should be cleared up.--Jack Upland 02:16, 27 November 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Jevons on sunspots

Jevons claimed that sunspots were responsible for economic shocks. In his thinking, sunspots led to agricultural output decline, which in turn hit the industrial economy. Could someone insert this interesting tidbit into the article? --Peripatetic 11:25, 8 December 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Jevons on cryptography

See public key cryptography. He didn't really invent it, but got remarkably close. DavidHopwood 22:52, 14 May 2006 (UTC)

[edit] WikiProject class rating

This article was automatically assessed because at least one WikiProject had rated the article as start, and the rating on other projects was brought up to start class. BetacommandBot 16:24, 9 November 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Badly organised

The intro is too long and the other sections could be better organised.--Jack Upland (talk) 10:15, 26 January 2008 (UTC)