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Deadweight loss — Wikipedia (en)

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In economics, deadweight loss is the loss of societal economic welfare due to production/consumption of a good at a quantity where marginal benefit (to society) does not equal marginal cost (to society). In other words, there are either goods being produced despite the cost of doing so being larger than the benefit, or additional goods are not being produced despite the fact that the benefits of their production would be larger than the costs. The deadweight loss is the net benefit that is missed out on. While losses to one entity often lead to gains for another, deadweight loss represents the loss that is not regained by anyone else. This loss is therefore attributed to both producers and consumers. Deadweight loss can also be a measure of lost economic efficiency when the socially optimal quantity of a good or a service is not produced. Non-optimal production can be caused by monopoly pricing in the case of artificial scarcity, a positive or negative externality, a tax or subsidy (the excess burden of taxation), or a binding price ceiling or price floor such as a minimum wage.

Tema degli esploratori: statistica e scienza dei dati (deposito sistematico; ricerca «causal inference»).
Fonte: Wikipedia in inglese, voce «Deadweight loss» — https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deadweight_loss
Wikidata Q358063 (dati Wikidata in CC0 1.0) — https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q358063
Autori: i contributori di Wikipedia (cronologia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deadweight_loss?action=history).
Licenza: Creative Commons Attribuzione-Condividi allo stesso modo 4.0 (CC BY-SA 4.0) — https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/. Il riuso richiede attribuzione e stessa licenza.
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