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  2. Hyperbolic absolute risk aversion - Wikipedia

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    The more special case of the isoelastic utility function, with constant relative risk aversion, occurs if, further, b = 0. The logarithmic utility function occurs for = as goes to 0. The more special case of constant relative risk aversion equal to one — U(W) = log(W) — occurs if, further, b = 0.

  3. 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.

  4. Glossary of economics - Wikipedia

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    Also called resource cost advantage. The ability of a party (whether an individual, firm, or country) to produce a greater quantity of a good, product, or service than competitors using the same amount of resources. absorption The total demand for all final marketed goods and services by all economic agents resident in an economy, regardless of the origin of the goods and services themselves ...

  5. Definitions of economics - Wikipedia

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    James Stuart (1767) authored the first book in English with 'political economy' in its title, explaining it just as: . Economy in general [is] the art of providing for all the wants of a family, so the science of political economy seeks to secure a certain fund of subsistence for all the inhabitants, to obviate every circumstance which may render it precarious; to provide everything necessary ...

  6. Prospect theory - Wikipedia

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    Daniel Kahneman, who won the 2002 Nobel Memorial Prize in Economics for his work developing prospect theory. Prospect theory is a theory of behavioral economics, judgment and decision making that was developed by Daniel Kahneman and Amos Tversky in 1979. [1]

  7. Clue (information) - Wikipedia

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    [12] A 1966 study identified fourteen types of context clues for native speakers. [13] A 1971 study classified clues for second language readers into three categories: intra-lingual, inter-lingual and extra-lingual. [13] Giving a clue to a non-Jew is an exception to Rabbinically prohibited activities of Shabbat for Orthodox Jews, such as giving ...

  8. An Essay on the Nature and Significance of Economic Science

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    The Essay has been described as different from earlier writings on economic methodology in generating a range of tightly argued, radical implications from a simple definition, for example in admitting an aspect of behaviour (rather than a list of behaviours) but not limiting the subject-matter of economics, provided that the influence of ...

  9. Consumer economy - Wikipedia

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    Charles Hugh Smith, writing for Business Insider, argues that while the use of credit has positive features in low amounts, but that the consumer economy and its expansion of credit produces consumer ennui because there is a marginal return to consumption, and that hyperinflation experts recommended investment in tangible goods.