Associations to the word «Jevons»
Noun
- Paradox
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Adjective
Adverb
Wiktionary
JEVONS PARADOX, noun. (economics) The proposition that technological progress that increases the efficiency with which a resource is used tends to increase (rather than decrease) the rate of consumption of that resource.
Dictionary definition
JEVONS, noun. English economist and logician who contributed to the development of the theory of marginal utility (1835-1882).
Wise words
In words, as fashions, the same rule will hold; Alike
fantastic, if too new, or old: Be not the first by whom the
new are tried, Nor yet the last to lay the old aside.