No Skylarks Sing by Millie Vigor
The Victorian polymath William Stanley Jevons (1835-82) is generally and rightly venerated as one of the great innovators of economic theory and method in what came to be known as the 'marginalist revolution'. This book is an investigation into the cultural and intellectual resources that Jevons drew upon to revolutionize research methods in economics. Jevons's uniform approach to the sciences was based on a firm belief in the mechanical constitution of the universe and a firm conviction that all scientific knowledge was limited and therefore hypothetical in character. Jevons's mechanical beliefs found their way into his early meteorological studies, his formal logic, and his economic pursuits. By using mechanical analogies as instruments of discovery, Jevons was able to bridge the divide between theory and statistics that had become more or less institutionalized in mid nineteenth-century Britain.
Millie Vigor was born in Dorset and was educated at Ludwell Village School. At age fourteen she left and started work, considering this the beginning of her real education. Throughout her many jobs; kitchenmaid, farm-worker, glove-maker, canteen cook, and B&B landlady she took note of what made people tick, the sights, the sounds, and stored this away to use later in her writing. In addition to articles and short stories sold to various magazines, her autobiographical book, Kippers for Breakfast, was published in 2003. She lives in Shetland with her constant companion, a cat called Harriet.
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| ISBN 13 | 9780750538657 |
| ISBN 10 | 0750538651 |
| Title | No Skylarks Sing |
| Author | Millie Vigor |
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| Binding Type | Hardback |
| Publisher | Magna Large Print Books |
| Year published | 2014-02-01 |
| Number of pages | 320 |
| Cover note | Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary. |
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