ABSTRACT
In the final paragraph of his The Theory of Political Economy (1871), Jevons asserted that, ‘There are valuable suggestions towards the improvement of the science contained in the works of such writers as Senior, Banfield, Cairnes, Jennings and Hearn’, as in those of certain ‘foreign authors’. In his second edition, of 1879, Jevons revised his final paragraph somewhat; Banfield and Jennings were dropped from the list of English language authors, which was now supplemented with the names of Macleod, Cliffe Leslie and Shadwell. These last two were recommended in a more specific manner in the Preface to the Second Edition:
One of the first to treat the subject [of the theory of wages] from the right point of view was Mr Cliffe Leslie, in an article [of July 1868]. Some years afterwards Mr J.L. Shadwell independently worked out the theory of wages which he has fully expounded in his admirable System of Political Economy [1877].
