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

by Jevons, William Stanley

1865

Summary

Landmark work in which Jevons examined Britain's dependence on coal and argued that improvements in fuel efficiency would not reduce consumption but instead increase it, a principle now known as the Jevons Paradox

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ISBN: 978-1108073806

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analytics Economics speed Efficiency terrain Resource Economics bolt Energy Economics

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• bolt Jevons Paradox (1865)