Talk:Parkinson's law/Archives/2015

Jevons Paradox
Isn't this very similar to Jevons paradox ?

"technological progress that increases the efficiency with which a resource is used, tends to increase (rather than decrease) the rate of consumption of that resource."

--81.210.252.151 (talk) 17:25, 13 May 2009 (UTC)


 * It is. Actually, there's a strong relationship that I'm seeing between the Jevons paradox, Parkinson's Law, White's Law, the maximum power principle, and the Darwin-Lotka energy law of Howard T. Odum. I don't know of a source that ties these together, though in re-reading this article today saw the connection and then read down to see the generalized version of Parkinson's law. Which appears to be original work on Wikipedia. I've found some citations elsewhere but all post-date the edit date on which it was added to this article (28 April, 2005). Dredmorbius (talk) 09:42, 21 June 2015 (UTC)