William Stanley Jevons

So tell me about this guy called William Stanley Jevons, and his eleven-year cycle of spots on the sun -- how did he relate that to the business cycles?

Fool.co.uk - Headlines 2010

So tell me about this guy called William Stanley Jevons, and his eleven-year cycle of spots on the sun -- how did he relate that to the business cycles?

Fool.co.uk - Headlines 2010

This hypothesis was introduced in the 19th century by economist William Stanley Jevons, who argued that increases in the energy efficiency throughout a nation would lead to increases in coal consumption, rather than decreases.

David B. Goldstein: How Bad Ideas Keep Rebounding Into Public Discourse: The Rebound Effect and Its Refutation David B. Goldstein 2011

Their argument is grounded in the writings of a 19th century economist, William Stanley Jevons, who posited in his 1865 book The Coal Question that as Great Britain's industries used coal more and more efficiently, the nation's use of coal actually increased rather than decreased.

Bill Chameides: Energy Efficiency on the Rebound Bill Chameides 2011

In 1865 William Stanley Jevons pointed out something paradoxical: historically, the better we get at efficiently using a resource, the more of that resource we use.

Christopher Mims: In an Energy-Scarce World, Is Energy Efficiency Finally King? Christopher Mims 2011

Their argument is grounded in the writings of a 19th century economist, William Stanley Jevons, who posited in his 1865 book The Coal Question that as Great Britain's industries used coal more and more efficiently, the nation's use of coal actually increased rather than decreased.

Bill Chameides: Energy Efficiency on the Rebound Bill Chameides 2011

This hypothesis was introduced in the 19th century by economist William Stanley Jevons, who argued that increases in the energy efficiency throughout a nation would lead to increases in coal consumption, rather than decreases.

David B. Goldstein: How Bad Ideas Keep Rebounding Into Public Discourse: The Rebound Effect and Its Refutation David B. Goldstein 2011

In 1865 William Stanley Jevons pointed out something paradoxical: historically, the better we get at efficiently using a resource, the more of that resource we use.

Christopher Mims: In an Energy-Scarce World, Is Energy Efficiency Finally King? Christopher Mims 2011

William Stanley Jevons (1835-1882), a British economist, wrote The Coal Question in 1865, in which he called attention to possible socioeconomic impacts of the exhaustion of Britain's coal supplies.

Jevons, William Stanley 2009

Historical and projected trends in population and the production, consumption and imports of coal in Britian by William Stanley Jevons in The Coal Question

The Coal Question (e-book) 2007