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  2. Market failure - Wikipedia

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    Different economists have different views about what events are the sources of market failure. Mainstream economic analysis widely accepts that a market failure (relative to Pareto efficiency) can occur for three main reasons: if the market is "monopolised" or a small group of businesses hold significant market power, if production of the good or service results in an externality (external ...

  3. X-inefficiency - Wikipedia

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    X-inefficiency is a concept used in economics to describe instances where firms go through internal inefficiency resulting in higher production costs than required for a given output.

  4. Economic efficiency - Wikipedia

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    There are two main standards of thought on economic efficiency, which respectively emphasize the distortions created by governments (and reduced by decreasing government involvement) and the distortions created by markets (and reduced by increasing government involvement).

  5. Scientific management - Wikipedia

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    By January 1911, a leading railroad journal began a series of articles denying they were inefficiently managed. [ 4 ] When steps were taken to introduce scientific management at the government-owned Rock Island Arsenal in early 1911, it was opposed by Samuel Gompers , founder and President of the American Federation of Labor (an alliance of ...

  6. Distributive efficiency - Wikipedia

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    Different value systems have different perspectives on the use of utility in making moral judgments. Deontological views of morality focus on factors other than utility. . Also, many Marxists, Kantians, and certain libertarians (such as Robert Nozick), all believe utility to be irrelevant as a moral standard or at least not as important as others such as natural rig

  7. Synonym - Wikipedia

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    Synonym list in cuneiform on a clay tablet, Neo-Assyrian period [1] A synonym is a word, morpheme, or phrase that means precisely or nearly the same as another word, morpheme, or phrase in a given language. [2] For example, in the English language, the words begin, start, commence, and initiate are all synonyms of one another: they are ...

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    If you love Scrabble, you'll love the wonderful word game fun of Just Words. Play Just Words free online!

  9. Efficient energy use - Wikipedia

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    In Spain, four out of every five buildings use more energy than they should. They are either inadequately insulated or consume energy inefficiently. [71] [72] [73] The Unión de Créditos Immobiliarios (UCI), which has operations in Spain and Portugal, is increasing loans to homeowners and building management groups for energy-efficiency ...