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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. 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).

  4. Distributive efficiency - Wikipedia

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    According to this economic law, as a person gets more to spend, things will be bought that give less and less utility. For example, if a person is given a gift certificate for a music download (and has no way to resell the certificate), the gift certificate will be used to purchase the song that will be enjoyed the most.

  5. 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 ...

  6. 3 Little-Known Factors That Could Affect Your Social Security ...

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    For example, the 2025 Social Security COLA was 2.5%. The average retirement beneficiary saw their total monthly benefit increase about $48 based on December data. However, anyone on Medicare saw ...

  7. Pareto efficiency - Wikipedia

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    An example is of a setting where individuals have private information (for example, a labor market where the worker's own productivity is known to the worker but not to a potential employer, or a used-car market where the quality of a car is known to the seller but not to the buyer) which results in moral hazard or an adverse selection and a ...

  8. NYT ‘Connections’ Hints and Answers Today, Friday, January 31

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    Synonyms for a specific facial feature. 3. These words describe individuals with refined and/or picky preferences. 4. Different ways to move around in the water.

  9. 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 ...