Hicksian demand function — In microeconomics, a consumer s Hicksian demand correspondence is the demand of a consumer over a bundle of goods that minimizes their expenditure while delivering a fixed level of utility. If the correspondence is actually a function, it is… … Wikipedia
John Hicks — Infobox Scientist name = John R. Hicks image size = 180px birth date = birth date|1904|4|8|mf=y birth place = Warwick, England death date = death date and age|1989|5|20|1904|4|8|mf=y death place = New York City, New York nationality = United… … Wikipedia
Value and Capital — is a book by the British economist John Richard Hicks, published in 1939. It is considered a classic exposition of microeconomic theory. A central result in consumer demand theory that the book builds on is that goods have value even with only… … Wikipedia
General equilibrium — theory is a branch of theoretical microeconomics. It seeks to explain the behavior of supply, demand and prices in a whole economy with several or many markets. It is often assumed that agents are price takers and in that setting two common… … Wikipedia
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Compensating variation — In economics, compensating variation (CV) is a measure of utility change introduced by John Hicks (1939). Compensating variation refers to the amount of additional money an agent would need to reach its initial utility after a change in prices,… … Wikipedia
Shephard's lemma — is a major result in microeconomics having applications in consumer choice and the theory of the firm. The lemma states that if indifference curves of the expenditure or cost function are convex, then the cost minimizing point of a given good (i) … Wikipedia
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IS/LM model — The IS curve moves to the right, causing higher interest rates (i) and expansion in the real economy (real GDP, or Y). The IS/LM model (Investment Saving/Liquidity preference Money supply) is a macroeconomic tool that demonstrates the… … Wikipedia
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economic growth — Process by which a nation s wealth increases over time. The most widely used measure of economic growth is the real rate of growth in a country s total output of goods and services (gauged by the gross domestic product adjusted for inflation, or… … Universalium