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  2. Rationing - Wikipedia

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    Rationing is the controlled distribution of scarce resources, goods, services, [1] or an artificial restriction of demand. Rationing controls the size of the ration, which is one's allowed portion of the resources being distributed on a particular day or at a particular time. There are many forms of rationing, although rationing by price is ...

  3. Spoon theory - Wikipedia

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    Spoons are used as a metaphor and visual representation for energy rationing. Spoon theory is a metaphor describing the amount of physical or mental energy that a person has available for daily activities and tasks, and how it can become limited. The term was coined in a 2003 essay by American writer Christine Miserandino.

  4. Rationing in the United States - Wikipedia

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    Rationing is the controlled distribution of scarce resources, goods, or services, or an artificial restriction of demand. Rationing controls the size of the ration, which is one person's allotted portion of the resources being distributed on a particular day or at a particular time.

  5. List of cognitive biases - Wikipedia

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    Greater likelihood of recalling recent, nearby, or otherwise immediately available examples, and the imputation of importance to those examples over others. Bizarreness effect: Bizarre material is better remembered than common material. Boundary extension: Remembering the background of an image as being larger or more expansive than the ...

  6. Disequilibrium macroeconomics - Wikipedia

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    Disequilibrium macroeconomics is a tradition of research centered on the role of deviation from equilibrium in economics.This approach is also known as non-Walrasian theory, equilibrium with rationing, the non-market clearing approach, and non-tâtonnement theory. [1]

  7. Price controls - Wikipedia

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    The rationing and price controls enforced in many countries during World War II encouraged widespread black market activity. [30] One source of black-market meat under wartime rationing was by farmers declaring fewer domestic animal births to the Ministry of Food than actually happened. Another in Britain was supplies from the US, intended only ...

  8. Credit rationing - Wikipedia

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    Credit rationing by definition is limiting the lenders of the supply of additional credit to borrowers who demand funds at a set quoted rate by the financial institution. [1] It is an example of market failure , as the price mechanism fails to bring about equilibrium in the market .

  9. Behavioral economics - Wikipedia

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    A rejection and elimination of psychology from economics in the early 1900s brought on a period defined by a reliance on empiricism. [9] There was a lack of confidence in hedonic theories, which saw pursuance of maximum benefit as an essential aspect in understanding human economic behavior. [6]