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  1. After doing very sophisticated* web searching, it seems that it is not uncommon typo, and I could not find a definition.

    So, there seems to be an opening for introducing a new term. Maybe outside #Statistics, shall we talk about a #Likeligood Function in #WelfareEconomics?
    Or does it describe a new equilibrium in #GameTheory, the one that is likely good?

    #Likelihood

    * 😂 😂 😅

  2. On a fallacy in the Kaldor-Hicks efficiency-equity analysis

    "This paper shows that implicit assumptions about the numeraire good in the #KaldorHicks efficiency-equity analysis involve a “same-yardstick” fallacy (a fallacy pointed out by #PaulSamuelson in another context). These results have negative implications for cost-benefit analysis, the wealth-maximization (e.g., “Chicago”) approach to law and #economics, and other parts of applied #WelfareEconomics"

    ellerman.org/wp-content/upload

    #econ

  3. Business Stuff doesn't make any sense till I remember the principle (maxim? another vile maxim?) of the "Invisible Foot" explained by E.K. Hunt.
    > .. The "invisible foot" ensures us that in a free-market ... economy each person pursuing only his own good will automatically, and most efficiently, do his part in maximizing the general public misery.
    - mstdn.jp/@bsmall2/108195742682
    - znetwork.org/wp-content/upload
    #EKHunt #InvisibleFoot #BusinessStuff #WelfareEconomics #NeoLiberalEconomics #DismalProfession

  4. 2/2

    If you assume that equality is "order" and thus a antonym for "disorder", then you may believe - Sen even calls it a "fact" - that the #TheilCoefficient is computed from an "#ArbitraryFormula".

    However, there is no contradiction: The Theil index is a #redundancy, where the actual redundancy (ISO/IEC 2382-16) of a system is computed as the #MaximumEntropy of that system minus the actual entropy of that system. That is the answer to Sen's objection!

    #GiniIndex #KolmIndex #WelfareEconomics