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Engines of Discovery:Jevons and Marshall on the Methods of Graphs and Diagrams

In: Including a Symposium on the Historical Epistemology of Economics

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  • Hsiang-Ke Chao
  • Harro Maas

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Diagrams are ubiquitous in economics and are uncontestably among the most used, if not the most important workhorses of economists, though they come in many forms. This essay examines the different uses of graphs and diagrams in the pioneering work of two Victorian economists, Stanley Jevons and Alfred Marshall. We stress the difference between their use as representations and as visual reasoning tools, a difference that became obscured in the twentieth century with the rise of econometrics.

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  • Hsiang-Ke Chao & Harro Maas, 2017. "Engines of Discovery:Jevons and Marshall on the Methods of Graphs and Diagrams," Research in the History of Economic Thought and Methodology, in: Including a Symposium on the Historical Epistemology of Economics, volume 35, pages 35-61, Emerald Group Publishing Limited.
    • Handle: RePEc:eme:rhetzz:s0743-41542017000035a003
    DOI: 10.1108/S0743-41542017000035A003
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