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Henry Charles Fleeming Jenkin, 1833-1885.

English electrical engineer and inventor, professor at Edinburgh from 1868.  In his 1870 work, Fleeming Jenkin sought to defend the theory of "supply-and-demand" against William Thornton's assault on microfoundations.   Provided the first diagrammatic representation of partial market equilibrium using supply and demand curves in the English-speaking world.  Recognized that lack of competition would lead to indeterminacy (anticipating Edgeworth).   It was Jenkin's work that precipitated Jevons to write and publish his revolutionary 1871 volume.

(note: "Fleeming" is pronounced "Fleming")

 

  

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Major Works of Fleeming Jenkin

  • "Trades Unions: How Far Legitimate?", 1858, North British Review, p.1 [1887 repr]
  • "Darwin and the Origins of the Species", 1867, North British Review, p.149 [1887 repr]
  • "The Atomic theory of Lucretius", 1868, North British Review, p111 [1887 repr]
  • "Technical Education", 1868, Fortnightly Review, p.179 [1887 repr]
  • "The Graphical Representation of the Laws of Supply and Demand, and their application to labour", 1870, in A. Grant, editor. Recess Studies. Pt. 1 (p.151-70), Pt. 2 (p.171-85)  [1887 repr]
  • "On the Principles which Regulate the Incidence of Taxes", 1872, Proceedings of Royal Society of Edinburgh, p.618
  • Electricity and Magnetism, 1873 [bk] [1876 ed, moa] [1887 9th ed]
  • "The Time-Labour System: or how to avoid the evil caused by strikes", 1879-81 (unpubl.)  [1887 ed]
  • "Is one man's gain, another man's loss?", 1884 (unpubl.) [1887 ed]
  • "A Fragment of truth", 1885 (unpub) [1887 ed]
  • Papers, Literary, Scientific, &C., 2 vols, 1887, v.1, v.2

 
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Resources on Fleeming Jenkin

  • "Review of Recess Studies", 1870, Saturday Review (Feb 12), p.220
  • "Memoir of Fleeming Jenkin", by Robert Louis Stevenson,1887, Papers, v.1
  • Memoir of Fleeming Jenkin, by Robert Louis Stevenson, 1899 edition
  • "Fleeming Jenkin", 1888, The Spectator, (Feb 25) p.270
  • "Fleeming Jenking", 1888, The Literary World (Mar 17), p.86
  • "Jenkin, Fleeming" entry in 1911 Britannica
  • Jenkin entry at Britannica
  • Wikipedia

 

 
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