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    In economics, the Jevons paradox (/ˈdʒɛvənz/; sometimes Jevons effect) occurs when technological progress increases the efficiency with which a resource...
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    William Stanley Jevons FRS (/ˈdʒɛvənz/; 1 September 1835 – 13 August 1882) was an English economist and logician. Irving Fisher described Jevons's book A General...
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    computers due to greater demand and replacements for slower computers. The Jevons Paradox is the proposition that technological progress that increases the efficiency...
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  • Jevons (born 1979), English football player William Stanley Jevons (1835–1882), English economist and logician Jevons paradox - an economic paradox where...
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    Jevons wrote in 1865 to explore the implications of Britain's reliance on coal. Given that coal was a finite, non-renewable energy resource, Jevons raised...
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  • series-parallel graph. Downs–Thomson paradox – Paradox in traffic engineering related to improvements in the road network Jevons paradox – Efficiency leads to increased...
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  • through their own successes. Jevons paradox: Increases in efficiency lead to even larger increases in demand. Leontief paradox: Some countries export labor-intensive...
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  • commute and so increase the traffic burden Lewis–Mogridge position Jevons paradox, an increase in efficiency tends to increase (rather than decrease)...
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  • Glasnost having been instated Progress and Poverty Relative deprivation Jevons paradox Huang Zongxi's Law Elster, Jon (2009-04-27). Alexis de Tocqueville,...
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  • became public, spawning the humorous catchphrase, and later, the law. Jevons paradox Moore's law Wirth's law Karlgaard, Rich (April 19, 2005). "Ten Laws...
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