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14. Mai 2024 · Abstract. An outsider in the logic community, Hugh MacColl (1837–1909), achieved recognition of his work in logic belatedly in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Together with George Boole, Augustus De Morgan, William Stanley Jevons, Charles S. Peirce, Ernst Schröder, John Venn, Christine Ladd-Franklin and others, MacColl ...
Vor 3 Tagen · As early as 1865, William Stanley Jevons proved in his work “The Coal Question” that the more efficiently a raw material is used, the more its consumption increases (Jevons’ paradox). This may result in the effects of these changes in other sectors of the economy being neglected at the expense of attempts to achieve energy efficiency.
Vor 5 Tagen · The term “sunspot” originated from the work of economist William Stanley Jevons, who attempted to relate business cycles to actual sunspots in the late 19th century. Although Jevons’s theory linking solar sunspots to business cycles was largely dismissed, economists later adopted the term to refer to extrinsic random variables in economic ...
Vor 2 Tagen · Jevons Paradox is named after the English economist William Stanley Jevons. It’s a counterintuitive economic theory that suggests improvements in efficiency for using a resource can lead to an overall increase in the consumption of that resource, rather than a decrease.
Vor 5 Tagen · Earlier, William Stanley Jevons, a proponent of mathematical methods applied to the subject, advocated economics for brevity and with the hope of the term becoming “the recognised name of a science. Today, political economy, where it is not used as a synonym for economics, may refer to very different things, including Marxian ...
Vor 3 Tagen · There, he sought out Augustus De Morgan, William Stanley Jevons, and William Kingdon Clifford, British mathematicians and logicians whose turn of mind resembled his own. Harvard observatory [ edit ] From 1869 to 1872, he was employed as an assistant in Harvard's astronomical observatory, doing important work on determining the ...
Vor 13 Stunden · In 1865, William Stanley Jevons noted that increasingly efficient steam engine designs were leading to increases in overall coal consumption, instead of decreases. Researchers have since found that the same effect applies to gasoline, electricity, computer processors, doctors, and any other factor of production. As production becomes more efficient, the number of things that are profitable to ...
