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The Coal Question; An Inquiry Concerning the Progress of the Nation, and the Probable Exhaustion of Our Coal Mines is a book that economist William Stanley Jevons wrote in 1865 to explore the implications of Britain's reliance on coal.
- William Stanley Jevons
- 1865
William Stanley Jevons argues that Britain's coal supply is limited and will decline as other countries industrialize. He explores the implications for the nation's progress, trade, and welfare in this online library of liberty title.
The state of the matter is as follows:-Where coal is dear, but there are other reasons for requiring motive power, elaborate engines may be profitably used, and may partly reduce the cost of the power. But if coal be dear in one place and cheap in another, motive power will
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In his 1865 book, “The Coal Question; An Inquiry Concerning the Progress of the Nation, and the Probable Exhaustion of Our Coal Mines,” British economist William Stanley Jevons warned that Britain would exhaust the coal supplies that were fueling its growth and prosperity.
18. Juli 2003 · The Coal Question : Jevons, W. Stanley : Free Download, Borrow, and Streaming : Internet Archive. (1 of 368)
5. Feb. 2018 · Many persons perhaps entertain a vague notion that some day our coal seams will be found emptied to the bottom, and swept clean like a coal-cellar. Our fires and furnaces, they think, will then be suddenly extinguished, and cold and darkness will be left to reign over a depopulated country.
In William Stanley Jevons. …not until the publication of The Coal Question (1865), in which Jevons called attention to the gradual exhaustion of Britain’s coal supplies, that he received public recognition. He feared that as the supply of coal was exhausted, its price would rise.
