I n 1865, economist William Stanley Jevons published The Coal Question, describing the crucial role that coal played in British economic development. Jevons could not solve this paradox in light…

The Victorian polymath William Stanley Jevons (1835-82) is generally and rightly venerated as one of the great innovators of economic theory and method. This book is an investigation into the…

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This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it.

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This book, written by economist William Stanley Jevons, explores various methods of social reform, including the role of education in creating social change. The papers contained in this book were…

This is a reproduction of a book published before 1923. This book may have occasional imperfections such as missing or blurred pages, poor pictures, errant marks, etc. that were either…

This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work was reproduced from the…