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  2. Gottfried Haberler - Wikipedia

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    Gottfried Haberler. Gottfried Haberler ( German: [ˈhaːbɐlɐ]; July 20, 1900 – May 6, 1995; until 1919 [1] Gottfried von Haberler) was an Austrian-American economist. [2] [3] [4] He worked in particular on international trade. One of his major contributions was reformulating the Ricardian idea of comparative advantage in a neoclassical ...

  3. Comparative advantage - Wikipedia

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    Comparative advantage in an economic model is the advantage over others in producing a particular good. A good can be produced at a lower relative opportunity cost or autarky price, i.e. at a lower relative marginal cost prior to trade. [1] Comparative advantage describes the economic reality of the work gains from trade for individuals, firms ...

  4. Austrian school of economics - Wikipedia

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    The Austrian School owes its name to members of the German historical school of economics, who argued against the Austrians during the late 19th-century Methodenstreit ("methodology struggle"), in which the Austrians defended the role of theory in economics as distinct from the study or compilation of historical circumstance.

  5. Opportunity cost - Wikipedia

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    Opportunity cost, as such, is an economic concept in economic theory which is used to maximise value through better decision-making. In accounting, collecting, processing, and reporting information on activities and events that occur within an organization is referred to as the accounting cycle.

  6. Friedrich von Wieser - Wikipedia

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    The alternative cost theory (or opportunity cost theory) is a theory of enormous importance that comes from his Theorie der gesellschaftlichen Wirtschaft (Theory of Social Economy), published in 1914, although his arguments were foreshadowed in his work Das Wesen und der Hauptinhalt der theoretischen Nationalokonomie (The Nature and Main ...

  7. Public choice - Wikipedia

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    Public choice, or public choice theory, is "the use of economic tools to deal with traditional problems of political science ." [1] Its content includes the study of political behavior. In political science, it is the subset of positive political theory that studies self-interested agents (voters, politicians, bureaucrats) and their ...

  8. Theories of taxation - Wikipedia

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    A narrower view of the theory of taxation reduces the system to two issues: who can pay and who can benefit ( Benefit principle ). Influential theories have been the ability theory presented by Arthur Cecil Pigou [2] and the benefit theory developed by Erik Lindahl. [3] [4] There is a later version of the benefit theory known as the "voluntary ...

  9. Government failure - Wikipedia

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    Government failure, in the context of public economics, is an economic inefficiency caused by a government intervention, if the inefficiency would not exist in a true free market. [1] The costs of the government intervention are greater than the benefits provided. It can be viewed in contrast to a market failure, which is an economic ...