La peur du déclin économique face à l’épuisement des ressources naturelles, de W. Stanley Jevons à Herbert S. Jevons (1865-1915)

Antoine Missemer

Revue économique, 2015, vol. 66, issue 5, 825-842

Abstract: From the 1860s, the unprecedent prosperity state of Great Britain faced a new threat : the exhaustion of coal resources. W. Stanley Jevons is the first to clearly emphasize the risks of coal depletion for the economic future of his country. Fifty years after him (in 1915), his son, Herbert S. Jevons, extended his father?s analysis in multiple ways. If these two authors share the same idea that resource depletion is a matter of production costs more than physical shortage, both do not indicate the same channels to avoid industrial decline, a fear that remains a strong feature of the late-19th century British economic thought. Classification JEL : B13, N13, N53, Q32

JEL-codes: B13 N13 N53 Q32 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2015
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