The Coal Question: An Inquiry Concerning the Progress of the Nation, and the Probable Exhaustion of Our Coal-Mines (Classic Reprint) - Hardcover

Jevons, William Stanley

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1528089111 ISBN 13: 9781528089111

Publisher: Forgotten Books, 2018

Synopsis

Excerpt from The Coal Question: An Inquiry Concerning the Progress of the Nation, and the Probable Exhaustion of Our Coal-Mines

The extent to which the argument advanced by Jevons, in reference to the exhaustibility of British coal resources, has been misunderstood, is surprising in view of the care which he took to make his position clear. The Royal Commissions appointed in 1866 and in 1901 to investigate the question, in spite Of the careful study which each Of them gave to the important issues involved, both shared the.

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Edition details

• Publisher: Forgotten Books
• Publication date: 2018
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1528089111
• ISBN 13: 9781528089111
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 524