William Stanley Jevons

William Stanley Jevons, an Englishman, was the first person to recognize the phenomenon of Business Cycles. He stipulated a 11 year cycle resembling the Sunspot activity.

He was the President for the British Association for the Advancement of Science in 1870, a professor of logic and philosophy, and wrote extensively on economic theory.

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