| List of contributors and their entries |
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xiii | |
| Preface |
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xxvii | |
| Adam Smith problem |
|
1 | (1) |
| Adam Smith's invisible hand |
|
1 | (2) |
| Aitken's theorem |
|
3 | (1) |
| Akerlof's 'lemons' |
|
3 | (1) |
| Allais paradox |
|
4 | (1) |
| Areeda-Turner predation rule |
|
4 | (2) |
| Arrow's impossibility theorem |
|
6 | (2) |
| Arrow's learning by doing |
|
8 | (1) |
| Arrow-Debreu general equilibrium model |
|
9 | (1) |
| Arrow-Pratt's measure of risk aversion |
|
10 | (1) |
| Atkinson's index |
|
11 | (1) |
| Averch-Johnson effect |
|
12 | (1) |
| Babbage's principle |
|
13 | (1) |
| Bagehot's principle |
|
13 | (1) |
| Balassa-Samuelson effect |
|
14 | (1) |
| Banach's contractive mapping principle |
|
14 | (1) |
| Baumol's contestable markets |
|
15 | (1) |
| Baumol's disease |
|
16 | (1) |
| Baumol-Tobin transactions demand for cash |
|
17 | (1) |
| Bayes's theorem |
|
18 | (1) |
| Bayesian-Nash equilibrium |
|
19 | (1) |
| Becher's principle |
|
20 | (1) |
| Becker's time allocation model |
|
21 | (2) |
| Bellman's principle of optimality and equations |
|
23 | (1) |
| Bergson's social indifference curve |
|
23 | (1) |
| Bernoulli's paradox |
|
24 | (1) |
| Berry-Levinsohn-Pakes algorithm |
|
25 | (1) |
| Bertrand competition model |
|
25 | (2) |
| Beveridge-Nelson decomposition |
|
27 | (1) |
| Black-Scholes model |
|
28 | (1) |
| Bonferroni bound |
|
29 | (1) |
| Boolean algebras |
|
30 | (1) |
| Borda's rule |
|
30 | (1) |
| Bowley's law |
|
31 | (1) |
| Box-Cox transformation |
|
31 | (1) |
| Box-Jenkins analysis |
|
32 | (2) |
| Brouwer fixed point theorem |
|
34 | (1) |
| Buchanan's clubs theory |
|
34 | (1) |
| Buridan's ass |
|
35 | (1) |
| Cagan's hyperinflation model |
|
36 | (1) |
| Cairnes-Haberler model |
|
36 | (1) |
| Cantillon effect |
|
37 | (1) |
| Cantor's nested intervals theorem |
|
38 | (1) |
| Cass-Koopmans criterion |
|
38 | (1) |
| Cauchy distribution |
|
39 | (1) |
| Cauchy's sequence |
|
39 | (1) |
| Cauchy-Schwarz inequality |
|
40 | (1) |
| Chamberlin's oligopoly model |
|
41 | (1) |
| Chipman-Moore-Samuelson compensation criterion |
|
42 | (1) |
| Chow's test |
|
43 | (1) |
| Clark problem |
|
43 | (1) |
| Clark-Fisher hypothesis |
|
44 | (1) |
| Clark-Knight paradigm |
|
44 | (1) |
| Coase conjecture |
|
45 | (1) |
| Coase theorem |
|
46 | (1) |
| Cobb-Douglas function |
|
47 | (1) |
| Cochrane-Orcutt procedure |
|
48 | (1) |
| Condorcet's criterion |
|
49 | (1) |
| Cournot aggregation condition |
|
50 | (1) |
| Cournot's oligopoly model |
|
51 | (1) |
| Cowles Commission |
|
52 | (1) |
| Cox's test |
|
53 | (1) |
| Davenant-King law of demand |
|
54 | (1) |
| Diaz-Alejandro effect |
|
54 | (1) |
| Dickey-Fuller test |
|
55 | (1) |
| Director's law |
|
56 | (1) |
| Divisia index |
|
57 | (1) |
| Dixit-Stiglitz monopolistic competition model |
|
58 | (2) |
| Dorfman-Steiner condition |
|
60 | (1) |
| Duesenberry demonstration effect |
|
60 | (1) |
| Durbin-Watson statistic |
|
61 | (1) |
| Durbin-Wu-Hausman test |
|
62 | (1) |
| Edgeworth box |
|
63 | (2) |
| Edgeworth expansion |
|
65 | (1) |
| Edgeworth oligopoly model |
|
66 | (1) |
| Edgeworth taxation paradox |
|
67 | (1) |
| Ellsberg paradox |
|
68 | (1) |
| Engel aggregation condition |
|
68 | (1) |
| Engel curve |
|
69 | (2) |
| Engel's law |
|
71 | (1) |
| Engle-Granger method |
|
72 | (1) |
| Euclidean spaces |
|
72 | (1) |
| Euler's theorem and equations |
|
73 | (2) |
| Farrell's technical efficiency measurement |
|
75 | (1) |
| Faustmann-Ohlin theorem |
|
75 | (1) |
| Fisher effect |
|
76 | (1) |
| Fisher-Shiller expectations hypothesis |
|
77 | (1) |
| Fourier transform |
|
77 | (2) |
| Friedman's rule for monetary policy |
|
79 | (1) |
| Friedman-Savage hypothesis |
|
80 | (1) |
| Fullarton's principle |
|
81 | (1) |
| Fullerton-King's effective marginal tax rate |
|
82 | (1) |
| Gale-Nikaido theorem |
|
83 | (1) |
| Gaussian distribution |
|
84 | (2) |
| Gauss-Markov theorem |
|
86 | (1) |
| Genberg-Zecher criterion |
|
87 | (1) |
| Gerschenkron's growth hypothesis |
|
87 | (1) |
| Gibbard-Satterthwaite theorem |
|
88 | (1) |
| Gibbs sampling |
|
89 | (1) |
| Gibrat's law |
|
90 | (1) |
| Gibson's paradox |
|
90 | (1) |
| Giffen goods |
|
91 | (1) |
| Gini's coefficient |
|
91 | (1) |
| Goodhart's law |
|
92 | (1) |
| Gorman's polar form |
|
92 | (1) |
| Gossen's laws |
|
93 | (1) |
| Graham's demand |
|
94 | (1) |
| Graham's paradox |
|
95 | (1) |
| Granger's causality test |
|
96 | (1) |
| Gresham's law |
|
97 | (1) |
| Gresham's law in politics |
|
98 | (1) |
| Haavelmo balanced budget theorem |
|
99 | (1) |
| Hamiltonian function and Hamilton-Jacobi equations |
|
100 | (1) |
| Hansen-Perlof effect |
|
101 | (1) |
| Harberger's triangle |
|
101 | (1) |
| Harris-Todaro model |
|
102 | (1) |
| Harrod's technical progress |
|
103 | (1) |
| Harrod-Domar model |
|
104 | (1) |
| Harsanyi's equiprobability model |
|
105 | (1) |
| Hausman's test |
|
105 | (1) |
| Hawkins-Simon theorem |
|
106 | (1) |
| Hayekian triangle |
|
107 | (1) |
| Heckman's two-step method |
|
108 | (1) |
| Heckscher-Ohlin theorem |
|
109 | (2) |
| Herfindahl-Hirschman index |
|
111 | (1) |
| Hermann-Schmoller definition |
|
111 | (1) |
| Hessian matrix and determinant |
|
112 | (1) |
| Hicks compensation criterion |
|
113 | (1) |
| Hicks composite commodities |
|
113 | (1) |
| Hicks's technical progress |
|
113 | (1) |
| Hicksian demand |
|
114 | (1) |
| Hicksian perfect stability |
|
115 | (1) |
| Hicks-Hansen model |
|
116 | (2) |
| Hodrick-Prescott decomposition |
|
118 | (1) |
| Hotelling's model of spatial competition |
|
118 | (1) |
| Hotelling's T² statistic |
|
119 | (1) |
| Hotelling's theorem |
|
120 | (1) |
| Hume's fork |
|
121 | (1) |
| Hume's law |
|
121 | (2) |
| Itô's lemma |
|
123 | (2) |
| Jarque-Bera test |
|
125 | (1) |
| Johansen's procedure |
|
125 | (1) |
| Jones's magnification effect |
|
126 | (1) |
| Juglar cycle |
|
126 | (2) |
| Kakutani's fixed point theorem |
|
128 | (1) |
| Kakwani index |
|
128 | (1) |
| Kalai-Smorodinsky bargaining solution |
|
129 | (1) |
| Kaldor compensation criterion |
|
129 | (1) |
| Kaldor paradox |
|
130 | (1) |
| Kaldor's growth laws |
|
131 | (1) |
| Kaldor-Meade expenditure tax |
|
131 | (1) |
| Kalman filter |
|
132 | (1) |
| Kelvin's dictum |
|
133 | (1) |
| Keynes effect |
|
134 | (1) |
| Keynes's demand for money |
|
134 | (2) |
| Keynes's plan |
|
136 | (1) |
| Kitchin cycle |
|
137 | (1) |
| Kolmogorov's large numbers law |
|
137 | (1) |
| Kolmogorov-Smirnov test |
|
138 | (1) |
| Kondratieff long waves |
|
139 | (1) |
| Koopman's efficiency criterion |
|
140 | (1) |
| Kuhn-Tucker theorem |
|
140 | (1) |
| Kuznets's curve |
|
141 | (1) |
| Kuznets's swings |
|
142 | (1) |
| Laffer's curve |
|
143 | (1) |
| Lagrange multipliers |
|
143 | (1) |
| Lagrange multiplier test |
|
144 | (2) |
| Lancaster's characteristics |
|
146 | (1) |
| Lancaster-Lipsey's second best |
|
146 | (1) |
| Lange-Lerner mechanism |
|
147 | (1) |
| Laspeyres index |
|
148 | (1) |
| Lauderdale's paradox |
|
148 | (1) |
| Learned Hand formula |
|
149 | (1) |
| Lebesgue's measure and integral |
|
149 | (1) |
| LeChatelier principle |
|
150 | (1) |
| Ledyard-Clark-Groves mechanism |
|
151 | (1) |
| Leontief model |
|
152 | (1) |
| Leontief paradox |
|
153 | (1) |
| Lerner index |
|
154 | (1) |
| Lindahl-Samuelson public goods |
|
155 | (1) |
| Ljung-Box statistics |
|
156 | (1) |
| Longfield paradox |
|
157 | (1) |
| Lorenz's curve |
|
158 | (1) |
| Lucas critique |
|
158 | (1) |
| Lyapunov's central limit theorem |
|
159 | (1) |
| Lyapunov stability |
|
159 | (2) |
| Mann-Wald's theorem |
|
161 | (1) |
| Markov chain model |
|
161 | (1) |
| Markov switching autoregressive model |
|
162 | (1) |
| Markowitz portfolio selection model |
|
163 | (1) |
| Marshall's external economies |
|
164 | (1) |
| Marshall's stability |
|
165 | (1) |
| Marshall's symmetallism |
|
166 | (1) |
| Marshallian demand |
|
166 | (1) |
| Marshall-Lerner condition |
|
167 | (1) |
| Maskin mechanism |
|
168 | (1) |
| Minkowski's theorem |
|
169 | (1) |
| Modigliani-Miller theorem |
|
170 | (1) |
| Montaigne dogma |
|
171 | (1) |
| Moore's law |
|
172 | (1) |
| Mundell-Fleming model |
|
172 | (1) |
| Musgrave's three branches of the budget |
|
173 | (2) |
| Muth's rational expectations |
|
175 | (1) |
| Myerson revelation principle |
|
176 | (2) |
| Nash bargaining solution |
|
178 | (1) |
| Nash equilibrium |
|
179 | (2) |
| Negishi's stability without recontracting |
|
181 | (1) |
| von Neumann's growth model |
|
182 | (1) |
| von Neumann-Morgenstern expected utility theorem |
|
183 | (2) |
| von Neumann-Morgenstern stable set |
|
185 | (1) |
| Newton-Raphson method |
|
185 | (1) |
| Neyman-Fisher theorem |
|
186 | (1) |
| Neyman-Pearson test |
|
187 | (2) |
| Occam's razor |
|
189 | (1) |
| Okun's law and gap |
|
189 | (3) |
| Paasche index |
|
192 | (1) |
| Palgrave's dictionaries |
|
192 | (1) |
| Palmer's rule |
|
193 | (1) |
| Pareto distribution |
|
194 | (1) |
| Pareto efficiency |
|
194 | (1) |
| Pasinetti's paradox |
|
195 | (2) |
| Patman effect |
|
197 | (1) |
| Peacock-Wiseman's displacement effect |
|
197 | (1) |
| Pearson chi-squared statistics |
|
198 | (1) |
| Peel's law |
|
199 | (1) |
| Perron-Frobenius theorem |
|
199 | (1) |
| Phillips curve |
|
200 | (1) |
| Phillips-Perron test |
|
201 | (2) |
| Pigou effect |
|
203 | (1) |
| Pigou tax |
|
204 | (1) |
| Pigou-Dalton progressive transfers |
|
204 | (1) |
| Poisson's distribution |
|
205 | (1) |
| Poisson process |
|
206 | (1) |
| Pontryagin's maximun principle |
|
206 | (1) |
| Ponzi schemes |
|
207 | (1) |
| Prebisch-Singer hypothesis |
|
208 | (2) |
| Radner's turnpike property |
|
210 | (1) |
| Ramsey model and rule |
|
211 | (1) |
| Ramsey's inverse elasticity rule |
|
212 | (1) |
| Rao-Blackwell's theorem |
|
213 | (1) |
| Rawls's justice criterion |
|
213 | (1) |
| Reynolds-Smolensky index |
|
214 | (1) |
| Ricardian equivalence |
|
215 | (1) |
| Ricardian vice |
|
216 | (1) |
| Ricardo effect |
|
217 | (1) |
| Ricardo's comparative costs |
|
218 | (1) |
| Ricardo-Viner model |
|
219 | (1) |
| Robinson-Metzler condition |
|
220 | (1) |
| Rostow's model |
|
220 | (2) |
| Roy's identity |
|
222 | (1) |
| Rubinstein's model |
|
222 | (1) |
| Rybczynski theorem |
|
223 | (2) |
| Samuelson condition |
|
225 | (1) |
| Sard's theorem |
|
225 | (1) |
| Sargan test |
|
226 | (1) |
| Sargant effect |
|
227 | (1) |
| Say's law |
|
227 | (2) |
| Schmeidler's lemma |
|
229 | (1) |
| Schumpeter's vision |
|
230 | (1) |
| Schumpeterian entrepreneur |
|
230 | (1) |
| Schwarz criterion |
|
231 | (1) |
| Scitovsky's community indifference curve |
|
232 | (1) |
| Scitovsky's compensation criterion |
|
232 | (1) |
| Selten paradox |
|
233 | (1) |
| Senior's last hour |
|
234 | (1) |
| Shapley value |
|
235 | (1) |
| Shapley-Folkman theorem |
|
236 | (1) |
| Sharpe's ratio |
|
236 | (1) |
| Shephard's lemma |
|
237 | (1) |
| Simon's income tax base |
|
238 | (1) |
| Slutksky equation |
|
238 | (2) |
| Slutsky-Yule effect |
|
240 | (1) |
| Snedecor F-distribution |
|
241 | (1) |
| Solow's growth model and residual |
|
242 | (2) |
| Sonnenschein-Mantel-Debreu theorem |
|
244 | (1) |
| Spencer's law |
|
244 | (1) |
| Sperner's lemma |
|
245 | (1) |
| Sraffa's model |
|
245 | (1) |
| Stackelberg's oligopoly model |
|
246 | (1) |
| Stigler's law of eponymy |
|
247 | (1) |
| Stolper-Samuelson theorem |
|
248 | (1) |
| Student t-distribution |
|
248 | (2) |
| Suits index |
|
250 | (1) |
| Swan's model |
|
251 | (1) |
| Tanzi-Olivera effect |
|
252 | (1) |
| Taylor rule |
|
252 | (1) |
| Taylor's theorem |
|
253 | (1) |
| Tchébichef's inequality |
|
254 | (1) |
| Theil index |
|
254 | (1) |
| Thünen's formula |
|
255 | (1) |
| Tiebout's voting with the feet process |
|
256 | (1) |
| Tinbergen's rule |
|
257 | (1) |
| Tobin's q |
|
257 | (1) |
| Tobin's tax |
|
258 | (2) |
| Tocqueville's cross |
|
260 | (1) |
| Tullock's trapezoid |
|
261 | (1) |
| Turgot-Smith theorem |
|
262 | (2) |
| Veblen effect good |
|
264 | (1) |
| Verdoorn's law |
|
264 | (1) |
| Vickrey auction |
|
265 | (1) |
| Wagner's law |
|
266 | (1) |
| Wald test |
|
266 | (2) |
| Walras's auctioneer and tâtonnement |
|
268 | (1) |
| Walras's law |
|
268 | (1) |
| Weber-Fechner law |
|
269 | (1) |
| Weibull distribution |
|
270 | (1) |
| Weierstrass extreme value theorem |
|
270 | (1) |
| White test |
|
271 | (1) |
| Wicksell effect |
|
271 | (2) |
| Wicksell's benefit principle for the distribution of tax burden |
|
273 | (1) |
| Wicksell's cumulative process |
|
274 | (1) |
| Wiener process |
|
275 | (1) |
| Wiener-Khintchine theorem |
|
276 | (1) |
| Wieser's law |
|
276 | (1) |
| Williams's fair innings argument |
|
277 | (1) |
| Wold's decomposition |
|
277 | (2) |
| Zellner estimator |
|
279 | |