He responded to "sentimental writers" who charged economics with being a "dismal science" by using iron in an illustration of the division of labor.
Echoing Spencer's First Principles, this thinker posited that the "arbitrary choice of the Creator" was the rationale for the initial distribution of atoms in the first world. He introduced the "logical alphabet" and was criticized by Robertson and Boole for that work, The Principles of Science. He responded to "sentimental writers" who charged economics with being a "dismal science" by using iron in an illustration of the division of labor. This economist analyzed fluctuations of agricultural output caused by the title phenomena in "Commercial Crises and Sunspots," though he achieved more infamy for assuming that Irish workers would be too inebriated to work. He analyzed the relationship between demand and marginal utility in his magnum opus, Theory of Political Economy. For 10 points, identify this contemporary of Léon Walras and central figure in the marginalist revolution in economic thought.
Echoing Spencer's First Principles, this thinker posited that the "arbitrary choice of the Creator" was the rationale for the initial distribution of atoms in the first world.
{William Stanley Jevons}