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Applying Jevons' Paradox to technologies like AI has notable conceptual and empirical limitations due to the complexity inherent in technological development and diffusion.
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Sorrell critiques Jevons' paradox for oversimplifying complex causal relationships among efficiency gains, economic expansion, and individual behavioral responses.
“Sorrell [2008] critiques Jevons' paradox for oversimplifying complex causal relationships among efficiency gains, economic expansion, and individual behavioral responses.”
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- Authors
- Sorrell, S., & Dimitropoulos, J.
- Affiliations
- University of Sussex (GB)
- Corresponding author
- Sorrell, Steve
- ORCID
- Sorrell, Steve
- Venue
- Ecological Economics
- Publisher
- Elsevier BV
- Published
- 2008-04
- Volume
- 65
- Issue
- 3
- Pages
- 636-649
- ISSN
- 0921-8009 (ISSN-L)
- OpenAlex
- W2087296271
- Cited by
- 889
- References
- 2
- Citations by year
- 2026: 58 · 2025: 56 · 2024: 58 · 2023: 46 · 2022: 62 · 2021: 66 · 2020: 43 · 2019: 62 · 2018: 63 · 2017: 59 · 2016: 52 · 2015: 55 · 2014: 49 · 2013: 44 · 2012: 28
- FWCI
- 12.33
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- green
- figshare.com
- Licence
- Locations
- Ecological Economics (publishedVersion)
- RePEc: Research Papers in Economics (submittedVersion)
- Figshare (submittedVersion, cc-by)
- Topics
- Physical Sciences › Energy › Renewable Energy, Sustainability and the Environment › Energy, Environment, and Transportation Policies
- Social Sciences › Economics, Econometrics and Finance › Economics and Econometrics › Energy, Environment, Economic Growth
- Physical Sciences › Energy › Renewable Energy, Sustainability and the Environment › Energy Efficiency and Management
- Keywords
- rebound effect, energy efficiency, energy services, capital costs, energy prices, systems of equations, time efficiency, energy policy
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