People

• Frank Byron Jevons
  Frank Byron Jevons
  Frank Byron Jevons was a polymath, academic and administrator of Durham University.-Early life:He was educated at Nottingham High School and Wadham College, Oxford and appointed a lecturer in Classics at Durham in 1882.-Career:...
  
   - British academic and philosopher
• Marshall Jevons
  Marshall Jevons
  Marshall Jevons is a fictitious crime writer invented and used by William L. Breit and Kenneth G. Elzinga, professors of economics at Trinity University, San Antonio and the University of Virginia, respectively....
  
   - the name of a fictitious crime writer invented and used by William Breit and Kenneth G. Elzinga
• Phil Jevons
  Phil Jevons
  Phillip "Phil" Jevons is an English football player who currently plays for Football League Two side Morecambe. He is notably remembered for scoring a last minute 45 yard extra time winning goal for Grimsby Town against his home town club Liverpool in the third round of the League Cup in 2001...
  
   - English football player
• William Stanley Jevons
  William Stanley Jevons
  William Stanley Jevons was a British economist and logician.Irving Fisher described his book The Theory of Political Economy as beginning the mathematical method in economics. It made the case that economics as a science concerned with quantities is necessarily mathematical...
  
   - English economist and logician

Other

• Jevons paradox
  Jevons paradox
  In economics, the Jevons paradox is the proposition that technological progress that increases the efficiency with which a resource is used, tends to increase the rate of consumption of that resource...
  
  - an economic paradox where increased efficiency sometimes causes increased resource consumption.