The Coal Question (e-book)

Historical and projected trends in population and the production, consumption and imports of coal in Britian by William Stanley Jevons in The Coal Question

The Coal Question: An Inquiry Concerning the Progress of the Nation, and the Probable Exhaustion of Our Coal-Mines
Author: William Stanley Jevons
Edition Used: London: Macmillan and Co., 1866. (Second edition, revised)
First published: 1865
Hardcover: ISBN: B0007DNETY

EoE Editor's Note
Preface

Introduction and Outline
Opinions of Previous Writers
Geological Aspects of the Question
Of the Cost of Coal Mining
Of the Price of Coal
Of British Invention
Of the Economy of Fuel
Of Supposed Substitutes for Coal
Of the Natural law of Social Growth
Of the Growth and Migrations of our Population
Of the Change and Progress of our Industry
Of our Consumption of Coal
Of the Export and Import of Coal
On the Comparative Coal Resources of Different Countries
Of the Iron Trade
The Problem of the Trading Bodies
Of Taxes and the National Debt
Concluding Reflections

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