The paper examines the history of Chinese translations works British economistW. S. Jevons in late nineteenth - early twentieth centuries as part process introduction Western scientific knowledge to China. attention is focused on Jevons’s Primer Political Economy and his book State Relation Labor . terminological features these are analyzed, including searches for equivalents modern vocabulary ...

Üretimin her aşamasında enerjiye olan talep geçmişten günümüze artan bir seyir izlemektedir. Dolayısı ile sanayileşme süreci enerji tüketimi arasında pozitif yönlü güçlü ilişki bulunduğu bilinmektedir. Enerjiye bağımlılık insanoğlunu yandan yeni kaynakları aramaya yönlendirirken, da enerjide verimliliği gerçekleştirecek yenilikler için çalışmalara yönlendirmektedir. Üretim süreçlerinde etkin ve...

theory of value does not evince a Ž rm grasp of Ž rst principles.” He welcomed successive editions and continued to Ž nd fundamental errors. Yet this book, incorporating none of the innovations that mattered so much to Edgeworth, remained “the best manual on the most difŽ cult part of Economics” (1897, p. 397). Edgeworth seems to have been satisŽ ed with the practical soundness of Bastable’s wo...

IntroductIon Energy is the key factor that drives the economy. Without abundant energy coming from sources other than human and animal muscles, the society as we know it would be unthinkable. Energy is needed to power all kinds of machinery, but also for the vital task of supplying the industrial system with the mineral commodities that make it function. Energy is also fundamental for the food ...

IN those delightful writings which Mr. Alfred Russell Wallace bas brought together in the volumes entitled Studies Scien#ji& lind Sodal and which include, with discussions geological, biological and anthropological, other discussions that are economic, political and educational, the reader finds a chapter described by the headline, "The Problem of Utility." Naturally, if he is familiar with mod...