Pareto efficiency — Pareto efficiency, or Pareto optimality, is an important concept in economics with broad applications in game theory, engineering and the social sciences. The term is named after Vilfredo Pareto, an Italian economist who used the concept in his… … Wikipedia
Efficiency — as a technical term may refer to: * Algorithmic efficiency, optimizing the speed and memory requirements of a computer program * Efficient energy use, useful work per quantity of energy ** Energy conversion efficiency, desired energy output per… … Wikipedia
Constrained Pareto efficiency — The condition of Constrained Pareto optimality is a weaker version of the standard condition of Pareto Optimality employed in Economics which accounts for the fact that a potential planner (i.e. the government) may not be able to improve upon a… … Wikipedia
Pareto — can refer to:*Vilfredo Pareto (1848–1923), Italian sociologist, economist and philosopher; *Paula Pareto (born 1986), Argentine judokaSeveral things named after Vilfredo Pareto:*Pareto chart, an ordered bar chart used in statistical quality… … Wikipedia
Pareto distribution — Probability distribution name =Pareto type =density pdf cdf Pareto cumulative distribution functions for various k with x m = 1. The horizontal axis is the x parameter. parameters =x mathrm{m}>0, scale (real) k>0, shape (real) support =x in [x… … Wikipedia
Pareto principle — The Pareto principle (also known as the 80 20 rule, the law of the vital few and the principle of factor sparsity) states that, for many events, 80% of the effects come from 20% of the causes. Business management thinker Joseph M. Juran suggested … Wikipedia
Efficiency wages — In labor economics, the efficiency wage hypothesis argues that wages, at least in some markets, are determined by more than simply supply and demand. Specifically, it points to the incentive for managers to pay their employees more than the… … Wikipedia
Kaldor-Hicks efficiency — (named for Nicholas Kaldor and John Hicks) is a measure of economic efficiency that captures some of the intuitive appeal of Pareto efficiency, but has less stringent criteria and is hence applicable to more circumstances. Under Kaldor Hicks… … Wikipedia
Vilfredo Pareto — Lausanne School Born 15 July 1848(1848 07 15) Died 19 August 1923(1923 08 … Wikipedia
Bayesian efficiency — addresses an appropriate economic definition of Pareto efficiency where there is incomplete information.Palfrey, Thomas R.; Srivastava, Sanjay; Postlewaite, A. (1993) [http://books.google.com/books?id=lZTls JJSxgC pg=PA14… … Wikipedia
