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Jevons, William Stanley

1835 - 1882

English economist and logician, pioneer of the marginal utility theory and author of The Coal Question, in which he identified the paradox of increased efficiency leading to greater resource consumption

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Topics

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Books

• The Coal Question: An Inquiry Concerning the Progress of the Nation, and the Probable Exhaustion of Our Coal-Mines (1865)

Photos

William Stanley Jevons, English economist and logician Unknown photographer · Public domain

Portrait of William Stanley Jevons published in Popular Science Monthly, 1877 Popular Science Monthly · Public domain