A Biographical Puzzle: Why Did Jevons Write The Coal Question?

Michael White

Journal of the History of Economic Thought, 1991, vol. 13, issue 2, 222-242

Abstract: “…a remarkably clever book, the result of close thought, much observation, and some research. Yet, after having read the book with attention, we are disposed to ask, why has it been written?” (The Athenaeum, May 1865).

Date: 1991
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