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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
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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.
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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?
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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.
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Note the dates of market depressions with the sunspot activity...It is more than good enough for me to trade on and have all kinds of money to sit at home and work on
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In his reaction from the prevailing view he sometimes expressed himself without due qualification: the declaration, for instance, made at the commencement of the
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There is too much of a hagiographical style in this piece i.e. not NPOV. For instance, the following passage is really an apologia:
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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!
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The intro is too long and the other sections could be better organised.--
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I also don't know what the "?" means - this should be cleared up.--
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