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A World Ruled by Number: William Stanley Jevons and the Rise of Mathematical Economics, Margaret Schabas. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1990, xii + 192 pages.

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  16 October 2009

Sandra J. Peart
Sandra J. Peart
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Economics & Philosophy , Volume 9 , Issue 1 , April 1993 , pp. 183 - 190
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