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Articles Tagged: Economics

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  • Curse of Knowledge - A cognitive bias where individuals struggle to communicate effectively because they assume others share their knowledge, leading to communication breakdowns.
  • Goodhart's Law - "When a measure becomes a target, it ceases to be a good measure."
  • Jevons Paradox - The Jevons Paradox explains how increased resource efficiency can paradoxically lead to greater overall resource consumption due to stimulated demand.
  • Moral Hazard - Moral hazard describes a situation where one party takes on more risk because another party bears the cost of that risk, often due to information asymmetry.
  • Quadratic Voting - A voting system where voters can express the intensity of their preferences by purchasing votes, with costs increasing quadratically. The system aims to achieve more efficient collective decision-making.
  • Shirky Principle - The Shirky Principle posits that institutions tend to preserve the very problems they were created to solve, often to maintain their relevance and resources.
  • St. Petersburg Paradox - A foundational paradox in decision theory that reveals a discrepancy between a gamble's infinite expected monetary value and people's willingness to pay.
  • The Matthew Effect - The Matthew Effect describes how initial advantages lead to cumulative benefits, while disadvantages widen over time, famously captured by the adage "the rich get richer and the poor get poorer."