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In his 1865 book The Coal Question, economist William Stanley Jevons highlighted this phenomenon and theorized that it was a more general one. Wherever inventions facilitated the more efficient use of a resource, an increase in demand for that resource inevitably followed.
- "Got Milk?", Doomberg 2023
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