Talk:William Stanley Jevons

message: 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)
replies: text: The article STILL is written like hagiography now, 12 years later! I tried to clean it up, but only made a preliminary start. It needs to be rewritten without all the peacock language, after pruning more verbosity. Maybe I'll get back to it, if we are ever allowed to remove EconLib dot org from the spam blacklist!--FeralOink (talk) 13:00, 23 October 2017 (UTC)
thread_title:  Hagiography 

message: 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)
thread_title: Jevons on sunspots

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

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

message: The two prime factors of the Jevons number are both close to the square of 300.
89,681 and 96,079 are the primes Jevons used. It is possible that he had made a list
of primes up to 307. This could be used to prove that the two mentioned are prime.  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 217.42.19.177 (talk) 11:10, 10 December 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  Jevons number 

message: I have just fixed two issues of vandalism to the article. I'm not an expert on Wm. Jevons. I think a more knowledgeable person needs to read over the article for any other vandalism. Thelema418 (talk) 05:42, 28 January 2014 (UTC)
thread_title:  Vandalism 

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