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William Stanley Jevons

BIRTH DATE:  9/1/1835
DEATH DATE:  8/13/1882
CRAFT:  Economics
NATIONALITY:  British
PROFESSION:  economist and logician
TRAVELS:  Identified the Jevons Paradox which considers that technological progress increases the efficiency with which a resource is used (reducing the amount necessary for any one use), but the rate of consumption of that resource rises because of increasing demand.
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