Before his major 1870s economic writings, William Stanley Jevons wrote in 1865 his first important book entitled The Coal Question. Jevons displays an interest for the problem of resource depletion, and some opportunism linked to the treatment of a subject in vogue at the time. The Coal Question is retrospectively essentially known for having pointed out the first bases of what we call today the rebound effect, known as well as the “Jevons' paradox”. No one can deny the major contribution... Voir plus