Jevons' Paradoxes: William Stanley Jevons and the Roots of Biophysical and Neoclassical Economics
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In 1865, economist William Stanley Jevons published The Coal Question, describing the crucial role that coal played in British economic development. Here, he enunciated what has come to be known as the Jevons paradox, which stated that improvements in resource efficiency leads to greater resource use as the expansion of scale occasioned by lower operating costs overwhelms the savings due to greater efficiency. The implications for any...
Format:Paperback
Language:English
ISBN:3030935884
ISBN13:9783030935887
Release Date:January 2022
Publisher:Springer
Length:120 Pages
Weight:0.45 lbs.
Dimensions:0.3" x 6.1" x 9.2"
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