First published 1866
The Coal Question: An Inquiry concerning the Progress of the Nation, and the Probable Exhaustion of our Coal-mines
The Coal Question: An Inquiry concerning the Progress of the Nation, and the Probable Exhaustion of our Coal-mines by W. Stanley Jevons is available as a free PDF and EPUB download at freecapitalists.org.
- W. Stanley Jevons
- First published
- 1866
- Format
- PDF and EPUB
- Pages
- 179
- Publisher
- London: Macmillan and Co., 1866 (2nd ed., revised); Online Library of Liberty edition
- License
- Public domain by publication date.
Jevons's 1865 warning that Britain's industrial supremacy rested on cheap coal, which would become scarce and dear as mines grew deeper and other nations industrialized. It includes his argument that more efficient use of coal raises rather than lowers total consumption, later known as the Jevons paradox.
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- 179 pages, 22 chapters, and about 77,444 words in the edition this archive serves.
- Who wrote The Coal Question: An Inquiry concerning the Progress of the Nation, and the Probable Exhaustion of our Coal-mines?
- William Stanley Jevons (1835–1882) was an English economist and logician. He is one of three economists (along with Léon Walras and Carl Menger) who developed the theory of marginal utility in 1871, thus transforming the understanding of the theory of value. This archive holds 5 of Jevons's works.
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22 chapters · 77,444 words · free to read here
- PREFACE.
- Chapter I: INTRODUCTION AND OUTLINE.
- Chapter II: OPINIONS OF PREVIOUS WRITERS.
- Chapter III: GEOLOGICAL ASPECTS OF THE QUESTION.
- Chapter IV: OF THE COST OF COAL MINING.
- Chapter V: OF THE PRICE OF COAL.
- Chapter VI: OF BRITISH INVENTION.
- Chapter VII: OF THE ECONOMY OF FUEL.
- Chapter VIII: OF SUPPOSED SUBSTITUTES FOR COAL.
- Chapter IX: OF THE NATURAL LAW OF SOCIAL GROWTH.
- Chapter X: OF THE GROWTH AND MIGRATIONS OF OUR POPULATION.
- Chapter XI: OF THE CHANGE AND PROGRESS OF OUR INDUSTRY.
- Chapter XII: OF OUR CONSUMPTION OF COAL.
- Chapter XIII: OF THE EXPORT AND IMPORT OF COAL.
- Chapter XIV: ON THE COMPARATIVE COAL RESOURCES OF DIFFERENT COUNTRIES.
- Chapter XV: OF THE IRON TRADE.
- Chapter XVI: THE PROBLEM OF THE TRADING BODIES.
- Chapter XVII: OF TAXES AND THE NATIONAL DEBT.
- Chapter XVIII: CONCLUDING REFLECTIONS.
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