Verify Jevons's Coal Question (1865) and the paradox's original framing against the primary text or a scholarly economic history

claim-jevons-paradox-coal-question-1865-efficiency-rebound rests on Tier-4 Wikipedia for the 1865 publication date and the exact framing of the paradox. The idea itself is settled economics, but the provenance is thin for a 160-year-old primary.

What to read / pull:

• Jevons, The Coal Question (1865), esp. Chapter VII ("Of the Economy of Fuel"), for the steam-engine rebound argument in his own words and the publication date.
• A scholarly economic history or the Wikipedia article's own cited sources (Alcott, "Jevons' paradox," Ecological Economics 2005) for the modern characterization and naming.

What it gates: clearing the note's [unverified-quant] flag and the 1865 date; firming the Victorian leg of observation-jevons-double-bridge-victorian-logic-machine-to-ai-energy.

Adjacent lead (not gating): the early-2025 DeepSeek-era revival of "Jevons paradox" as an AI-industry talking point — who invoked it and why — is a separate research hook left in the inbox.