Jevons' Paradoxes

Kent Klitgaard is a Professor Emeritus of Economics and Sustainability at Wells College, having just retired from a thirty-year teaching career.Kent is the co-author, in collaboration with Charlie Hall, of Energy and the Wealth of Nations, co-founder of the International Society of Biophysical Economics, and a board member of the Biophysical Economics Institute. He is the proud father of two adult children who have eschewed the corporate road to wealth in order to do good for the world.

• Good Jevons, Bad Jevons: William Stanley Jevons and the Roots of Neoclassical and Biophysical Economics.- Jevons the Empiricist: Gold; Coal; and Sunspots.- Jevons the Theorist: The Theory of Political Economy and the Roots of Neoclassical Economics.- Energy, Labor, and the Industrial Revolution.- Conclusion: Jevons’ Many Paradoxes and Thoughts for the Future.