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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
- 1865
- United Kingdom
William Stanley Jevons (author) A warning that Britain would face rising costs for coal as other nations industrialized and that this would have a deep impact on the British economy and way of life. Read Now. Downloads.
The Coal Question William Stanley Jevons The Coal Question An Inquiry Concerning the Progress of the Nation, and the Probable Exhaustion of Our Coal-Mines by William Stanley Jevons Edition Used: London: Macmillan and Co., 1866. (Second edition, revised) First Published: 1865 Version: 1.0 This version of the text formatted and prepared by ...
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The Jevons paradox was first described by the English economist William Stanley Jevons in his 1865 book The Coal Question. Jevons observed that England 's consumption of coal soared after James Watt introduced the Watt steam engine, which greatly improved the efficiency of the coal-fired steam engine from Thomas Newcomen 's earlier design.
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.
The Coal Question. work by Jevons. Learn about this topic in these articles: discussed in biography. 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.
The Coal Question. Nature1907 Cite this article. 78 Accesses. Metrics. Abstract. THE first edition of Jevons's lucid and exhaustive work was published in 1865 and the second in 1866, and...
