文档介绍：An Eponymous Dictionary
of Economics
A Guide to Laws and Theorems Named after Economists
Edited by
Julio Segura
Professor of Economic Theory, plutense, Madrid, Spain,
and
Carlos Rodríguez Braun
Professor of History of Economic Thought, plutense,
Madrid, Spain
Edward Elgar
Cheltenham, UK • Northampton, MA, USA
© Carlos Rodríguez Braun and Julio Segura 2004
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Contents
List of contributors and their entries xiii
Preface xxvii
Adam Smith problem 1
Adam Smith’s invisible hand 1
Aitken’s theorem 3
Akerlof’s ‘lemons’ 3
Allais paradox 4
Areeda–Turner predation rule 4
Arrow’s impossibility theorem 6
Arrow’s learning by doing 8
Arrow–Debreu general equilibrium model 9
Arrow–Pratt’s measure of risk aversion 10
Atkinson’s index 11
Averch–Johnson effect 12
Babbage’s principle 13
Bagehot’s principle 13
Balassa–Samuelson effect 14
Banach’s contractive mapping principle 14
Baumol’s contestable markets 15
Baumol’s disease 16
Baumol–Tobin transactions demand for cash 17
Bayes’s theorem 18
Bayesian–Nash equilibrium 19
Becher’s principle 20
Becker’s time allocation model 21
Bellman’s principle of optimality and equations 23
Bergson’s social indifference curve 23
Bernoulli’s paradox 24
Berry–Levinsohn–Pakes algorithm 25
petition model 25
Beveridge–Nelson position 27