Primary Sources

The Jevons Archives are located in the John Rylands University Library, University of Manchester. For a complete list of these sources, see McNiven 1983.

• Black, R. D. C. (ed.) 1973. Papers and Correspondence of William Stanley Jevons Volume II. Correspondence 1850–1862, London and Basingstoke: MacMillan. (Scholar)
• ––– (ed.) 1977a. Papers and Correspondence of William Stanley Jevons Volume III. Correspondence 1863–1872, London and Basingstoke: MacMillan. (Scholar)
• ––– (ed.) 1977b. Papers and Correspondence of William Stanley Jevons Volume IV. Correspondence 1873–1878, London and Basingstoke: MacMillan. (Scholar)
• ––– (ed.) 1977c. Papers and Correspondence of William Stanley Jevons Volume V. Correspondence 1879–1882, London and Basingstoke: MacMillan. (Scholar)
• ––– (ed.) 1977d. Papers and Correspondence of William Stanley Jevons Volume VI. Lectures on Political Economy 1875–1876, London and Basingstoke: MacMillan. (Scholar)
• ––– (ed.) 1981. Papers and Correspondence of William Stanley Jevons Volume VII. Papers on Political Economy, London and Basingstoke: MacMillan. (Scholar)
• Black, R. D. C. & R. Könekamp (eds.) 1972. Papers and Correspondence of William Stanley Jevons Volume I. Biography and Personal Journal, London and Basingstoke: MacMillan. (Scholar)
• Jevons, W. S. [1858]. The Social Cesspools of Sydney No. 1. — The Rocks. The Sydney Morning Herald, October 7, 1858, typescript provided by Michael V. White. (Scholar)
• ––– 1863a. “On the Study of Periodic Commercial Fluctuations.” Report of the British Association for the Advancement of Science, Cambridge, 157–8. (Scholar)
• ––– 1863b. “Notice of a General Mathematical Theory of Political Economy.” Report of the British Association for the Advancement of Science, Cambridge, 158–9. (Scholar)
• ––– [1865, 1906] 1965. The Coal Question, New York: Augustus M. Kelley.
• ––– [1866] 1965. “Brief Account of a General Mathematical Theory of Political Economy.” in The Theory of Political Economy, New York: Augustus M. Kelley, 303–14.
• ––– [1869]. “The Substitution of Similars.” in [1890] 1991. Pure Logic and Other Minor Works, Bristol: Thoemmes. (Scholar)
• ––– 1871. The Theory of Political Economy, first edition, London and New York: MacMillan and Co. (Scholar)
• ––– [1874] 1879. The Principles of Science: A Treatise on Logic and Scientific Method, London: MacMillan.
• ––– 1875. Money and the Mechanism of Exchange, London: Kegan Paul, Trench, Trübner & Co. (Scholar)
• ––– [1878] 2001. Science Primers. Political Economy (Writings on Economics Vol. 5, Palgrave Archive Edition), London: Macmillan.
• ––– [1879, 1957] 1965. The Theory of Political Economy, fifth edition, New York: Augustus M. Kelley.
• ––– 1879b. “John Stuart Mill's Philosophy Tested. IV.-Utilitarianism.” Contemporary Review, 36: 521–38. (Scholar)
• ––– [1882, 1910] 1968. The State in Relation to Labour, London: MacMillan.
• ––– [1883] 1965. Methods of Social Reform, New York: Augustus M. Kelley.
• ––– [1884] 1909. Investigations in Currency and Finance, London: MacMillan.
• ––– [1905] 1965. The Principles of Economics, New York: Augustus M. Kelley.
• ––– 2001. Collected Economic Writings. 9 Volumes, London: Palgrave/MacMillan. (Scholar)
• ––– 2002. Reviews and Obituaries, 2 Volumes, with a general introduction by Takatoshi Inoue and headnotes by Bert Mosselmans, Bristol: Thoemmes Press. (Scholar)
• McNiven, P., 1983. Hand-List of the Jevons Archive in the John Rylands University Library. Bulletin of the John Rylands University Library, 66: 213–55. (Scholar)

Secondary Sources

• Adamson, R., [1881] 1988. “Review of W. S. Jevons' ‘Studies in Deductive Logic’,” Mind, 6: 427–33. Reprinted in J.C. Wood (ed.), William Stanley Jevons: Critical Assessments Vol. I, London & New York: Routledge, 30–36.
• Aldrich, J., 1987. “Jevons as Statistician: The Role of Probability,” Manchester School of Economics and Social Studies, 55(3): 233–56. (Scholar)
• Black, R.D.C., 1995. “Transitions in Political Economy” in Economic Theory and Policy in Context, Aldershot: Edgar Elgar, 163–201. (Scholar)
• Frege, G., [1884] 1968. Die Grundlagen der Arithmetik (translated title: The Foundations of Arithmetic), Oxford: Basil Blackwell.
• Grattan-Guinness, I., 1991. “The Correspondence between George Boole and Stanley Jevons, 1863–1864,” History and Philosophy of Logic, 12: 15–35. (Scholar)
• Hempel, C. G. & P. Oppenheim, [1948] 1953. “The Logic of Explanation,” in Feigl, Herbert and May Brodbeck (eds.), Readings in the Philosophy of Science, New York: Appleton-Century-Crofts, 319-52.
• Inoue, T. & M. V. White, 1993. “Bibliography of Published Works by W. S. Jevons,” Journal of the History of Economic Thought, 15: 122–47. Updated and reprinted in Jevons, 2001, Collected Economic Writings Volume 1, London: Palgrave/MacMillan. (Scholar)
• Könekamp, R., 1972. “Biographical Introduction,” in R.D.C. Black and R. Könekamp (eds.), Papers and Correspondence of William Stanley Jevons Volume I, London and Basingstoke: MacMillan, 1–52. (Scholar)
• Laidler, D., 1982. “Jevons on Money,” The Manchester School, 50(4): 326–53. (Scholar)
• La Nauze, J.A., [1953] 1988. “The Conception of Jevons' Utility Theory,” Economica, 20: 356–8. Reprinted in J.C. Wood (ed.), William Stanley Jevons: Critical Assessments Vol. III, London & New York: Routledge, 58–60.
• Maas, H., 2005. William Stanley Jevons and the Making of Modern Economics, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. (Scholar)
• McNiven, P., 1983. “Hand-List of the Jevons Archive in the John Rylands University Library,” Bulletin of the John Rylands University Library, 66: 213–55. (Scholar)
• Mosselmans, B., 1998. “William Stanley Jevons and the Extent of Meaning in Logic and Economics,” History and Philosophy of Logic, 19: 83–99. (Scholar)
• –––, 2001. Bibliography of Secondary Sources, in Collected Economic Writings of W. S. Jevons, 9 Volumes, London: Palgrave/MacMillan, pp. xliv-liv. (Scholar)
• –––, 2005. “Adolphe Quetelet, the Average Man and the Development of Economic Methodology”, European Journal of the History of Economic Thought, 12(4): 565–582. (Scholar)
• –––, 2007. William Stanley Jevons and the Cutting Edge of Economics, London: Routledge. (Scholar)
• Mosselmans, B. and G.D. Chryssides, 2005. “Unitarianism and Evolutionism in W. S. Jevons' Thought,” Faith and Freedom, 58 (160): 18–44. (Scholar)
• Mosselmans, B. & E. Mathijs, 1999. “Jevons' Music Manuscript and the Political Economy of Music”, History of Political Economy, 31 (Supplement): 121–156. (Scholar)
• Mosselmans, B. & M. V. White, 2001. “General Introduction”, in Collected Economic Writings of W. S. Jevons, 9 Volumes, London: Palgrave/MacMillan, pp. v-xxv. (Scholar)
• Peart, S., 1996. The Economics of William Stanley Jevons, London: Routledge. (Scholar)
• Porter, T. M., 1986. The Rise of Statistical Thinking: 1820–1900, Princeton: Princeton University Press. (Scholar)
• –––, 1995. “Statistical and Social Facts from Quetelet to Durkheim,” Sociological Perspectives, 38(1): 15–26. (Scholar)
• Quetelet, A., [1835] 1991. Sur l'homme et le développement de ses facultés, ou essai de physique sociale, Paris: Bachelier.
• Robertson, G., [1876] 1988. “Mr. Jevons' Formal Logic,” Mind, 1: 206–22. Reprinted in J.C. Wood (ed.), William Stanley Jevons: Critical Assessments Volume 1, London and New York: Routledge, 11–25.
• Schabas, M., 1990. A World Ruled by Number. William Stanley Jevons and the Rise of Mathematical Economics, Princeton: Princeton Unversity Press. (Scholar)
• Stigler, S. M., 1986. The History of Statistics. The Measurement of Uncertainty before 1900, Cambridge, MA & London: Belknap Press of Harvard University Press. (Scholar)
• White, M. V., 1993. “The ‘Irish Factor’ in Jevons' Statistics: a Note,” History of Economics Review, 19: 79–85. (Scholar)
• –––, 1994a. “Bridging the Natural and the Social: Science and Character in Jevons' Political Economy,” Economic Inquiry, 32: 429–44. (Scholar)
• –––, 1994b. “Following Strange Gods: Women in Jevons' Political Economy,” in Groenewegen (ed.) Feminism and Political Economy in Victorian England, Aldershot: Edward Elgar, 46–78. (Scholar)