William Stanley Jevons (1835–1882) was a British economist and logician who made foundational contributions to marginalism and economic theory. He is best known for his work The Coal Question (1865), which identified what became known as the Jevons Paradox.
Developed marginal utility theory; identified the Jevons Paradox that technological efficiency leads to increased resource consumption.
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