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Lucasian Equilibrium Business Cycle Theory
The Lucas paradox Economic Cycle Theory Introduction The Lucas paradox Economic Cycle Theory is an economic paradigm proposed by Robert Lucas Jr in 1967. Lucas was an American economist who was best known for his contribution to the rational expectations theory which states that economic agents ......
tags: economic theory lucas economic investment suggests
03/07/2023
1053
Ethan
economic surplus theory
Introduction Marginalism is a type of economic theory which is based on the concept of marginal utility and the idea that people base their economic decisions around assessing the difference between the marginal costs and marginal benefit. The Marginalist school of economists sought to explain th......
tags: marginal additional service surplus consumer transaction
02/07/2023
1130
Avery
Achilles paradox
Achilless paradox Achilless paradox is a paradox in logic, named after the Greek hero Achilles in Homer’s Iliad. It states that if a runner runs a certain distance and another runner runs half of that same distance, then the second runner should reach the halfway point before the first runner re......
tags: runner paradox achilless paradox option expected
01/07/2023
1055
Sophie
Alabama paradox
Alabama paradox In June 2013, the Supreme Court handed down a ruling in the landmark US Supreme Court case, Shelby County v. Holder, ruling unconstitutional the section of the Voting Rights Act of 1965 (VRA) that required any state with a significant history of voter discrimination to pre-clear a......
tags: alabama voting laws alabama he paradox
01/07/2023
1050
Erica
liar paradox
The Liars paradox The Liars paradox is one of the oldest and most famous paradoxes in the history of logic and mathematics. It is a paradox that has puzzled thinkers since ancient times and has yet to come up with a definitive answer. The origin of the Liars paradox goes back to Ancient Greece an......
tags: statement paradox false paradox liars statement
01/07/2023
1059
Sophia
Grayling and Nelson paradox
Bertrand Russell and Norman’s Dilemma Bertrand Russells Dilemma is a well-known philosophical puzzle. It is named after the British philosopher and mathematician, Bertrand Russell. The dilemma is also known as the paradox of Norman. The dilemma states that two people, Norman and Colin, are walk......
tags: dilemma norman colin option decision paradox
01/07/2023
1064
Sophie
Fermi paradox
The Cosmological Argument The cosmological argument is one of the best-known philosophical arguments for the existence of God. This argument states that the world that we live in must have a cause, and that cause must be God. The idea behind this argument is that everything that exists has a cause......
tags: argument god must paradox economy growth
01/07/2023
1106
Lily
dichotomy paradox
Two-Point paradox The two-point paradox (also known as the pearl paradox, or the dichotomy paradox) is a paradox that arises when attempting to determine the length of a curved line. The paradox states that any line that is divided into two parts of equal length must have the same length as the w......
tags: line paradox can paradox opinion arbitrary
01/07/2023
1086
Olivia
birthday attack
Birthday attack, also known as Birthday paradox, is a cyber attack defined by its capacity to exploit the mathematics behind the birthday paradox problem. It is based off of a theorem first postulated by mathematician Richard Von Mises in the early 1900s. The basic formula implies that, with a giv......
tags: birthday attack system attack value same
01/07/2023
1046
Sophia
simpson paradox
Introduction The Simpson paradox is a phenomenon in which an aggregate trend may reverse its sign when broken down by additional categorical variables. In Descriptive Statistics, a Simpson paradox can occur when the marginal association between two variables is opposite to the relationship betwee......
tags: variables paradox simpson may data two
01/07/2023
1081
Lily
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