The Effect of Allocative Efficiency of Free Markets on Entropy and its Implications on Taxes
| Autor: | Stephan Unger |
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| Jazyk: | angličtina |
| Rok vydání: | 2019 |
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Computer Science::Computer Science and Game Theory
Excess burden of taxation Chaotic Social Welfare allocative efficiency General Medicine lcsh:Regional economics. Space in economics deadweight loss taxes lcsh:HT388 Economics Econometrics Perfect competition Deadweight loss Entropy (information theory) perfect competition Allocative efficiency Free market entropy social welfare |
| Zdroj: | Athens Journal of Business & Economics, Vol 5, Iss 4, Pp 287-300 (2019) |
| Popis: | This article shows that the entropy in a free market is maximized under the allocative efficiency condition. In contrast to that, it is shown that any pre-determined allocation, as it is the case with the collection and distribution of taxes, exhibits a higher probability of minimizing the entropy in the system, where the loss in entropy corresponds to the deadweight loss caused by the excess burden of taxation. The implications are that any chaotic system, or exchange economy, converges to an optimal structure of wealth distribution which maximizes social welfare, in contrast to a randomly, pre-determined distribution of wealth. |
| Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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