Jevons paradox
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title:
Jevons paradox
text:
In economics, the Jevons paradox occurs when technological progress increases the efficiency with which a resource is used, but the falling cost of use induces increases in demand enough that resource use is increased, rather than reduced. Governments, both historical and modern, typically expect that energy efficiency gains will lower energy consumption, rather than expecting the Jevons paradox. In 1865, the English economist William Stanley Jevons observed that technological improvements that
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Efficiency leads to increased demand
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jevons_paradox
date created:
2004-09-15T20:31:52Z
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2024-09-10T22:05:20Z
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