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

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  11 June 2009

Michael V. White
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“…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).

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Journal of the History of Economic Thought , Volume 13 , Issue 2 , Fall 1991 , pp. 222 - 242
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1991

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