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Definition: Jevons

Part of Speech Definition
Noun 1. English economist and logician who contributed to the development of the theory of marginal utility (1835-1882).[Wordnet].

Source: WordNet 3.0 Copyright © 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

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Date "Jevons" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1871. (references)

Common Expressions: Jevons

Expressions Definition
Jevons paradox In economics, the Jevons Paradox is an observation made by William Stanley Jevons who stated that as technological improvements increase the efficiency with which a resource is used, total consumption of that resource may increase, rather than decrease. It is historically called Jevons Paradox since it ran counter to Jevons' own intuition, but it is not a paradox at all and is well understood by modern economic theory which shows that improved resource efficiency may trigger a change in the overall consumption of that resource, but the direction of that change depends on other economic variables. (references)
Marshall Jevons Marshall Jevons is the name of a fictitious crime writer invented and used by William Breit and Kenneth G. Elzinga, professors of economics at Trinity University, San Antonio and the University of Virginia, respectively. (references)
William Stanley Jevons English economist and logician who contributed to the development of the theory of marginal utility (1835-1882). Source: Wordnet 3.0 Copyright © 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
William Stanley Jevons William Stanley Jevons (September 1, 1835 - August 13, 1882), English economist and logician, was born in Liverpool. He expounded in his book The Theory of Political Economy (1871) the "final" (marginal) utility theory of value. Jevons' work, along with similar discoveries made by Carl Menger in Vienna (1871) and by Léon Walras in Switzerland (1874), marked the opening of a new period in the history of economic thought. (references)

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Extended Definition: Jevons

Jevons

People

  • Marshall Jevons - the name of a fictitious crime writer invented and used by William Breit and Kenneth G. Elzinga
  • Phil Jevons - English football player
  • William Stanley Jevons - English economist and logician

Other

  • Jevons paradox - an economic paradox where increased efficiency sometimes causes increased resource consumption.

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 William Stanley Jevons.
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