The Coal Question
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The Coal Question is an influential 1865 treatise by economist William Stanley Jevons that examines the economic and environmental implications of Britain's dependence on coal and introduces what later became known as the Jevons paradox.
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| The Coal Question canonical | 1 |
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| instanceOf |
book
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economic treatise ⓘ |
| author | William Stanley Jevons NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| centralArgument |
Britain’s economic supremacy depended critically on cheap coal
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Exhaustion or rising cost of coal would undermine British industrial power ⓘ Increased efficiency in coal use can lead to increased total coal consumption ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin | United Kingdom ⓘ |
| discusses |
coal mining
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iron industry ⓘ limits to growth ⓘ population growth ⓘ railways ⓘ steam power ⓘ |
| firstEditionPlaceOfPublication | London NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| genre | non-fiction ⓘ |
| hasPart |
chapters on coal consumption
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chapters on coal supply ⓘ chapters on national policy ⓘ chapters on technological improvement ⓘ |
| historicalSignificance |
early systematic analysis of energy and economic growth
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foundational work for the concept later called the Jevons paradox ⓘ important contribution to Victorian debates on resource exhaustion ⓘ |
| influenced |
debates on peak resources
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energy economics ⓘ environmental economics ⓘ sustainability discourse ⓘ |
| language | English ⓘ |
| notableConcept | Jevons paradox NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| proposes | that policy cannot easily offset the rebound from efficiency gains ⓘ |
| publicationYear | 1865 ⓘ |
| publisher | Macmillan and Co. NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| relatedConcept |
energy efficiency
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peak coal ⓘ rebound effect ⓘ resource scarcity ⓘ |
| relatedWork | The Theory of Political Economy NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| subject |
British economy
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coal ⓘ economic growth ⓘ energy economics ⓘ environmental impact of coal ⓘ industrialization ⓘ resource depletion ⓘ sustainability ⓘ technological efficiency ⓘ |
| timePeriodDiscussed | 19th-century Britain ⓘ |
| warnsAbout |
economic risks of overreliance on a single energy source
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long-term scarcity of coal ⓘ |
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