Moral Hazard
Discipline: Economics
Moral hazard refers to the idea that certain types of insurance systems might cause individuals to act in a more dangerous way than normal, causing a difference between the private marginal cost and the marginal social cost of the same action.
Source:
S Ross, 'The Economic Theory of Agency: the Principal's Problem', American Economic Review, vol. LXIII (1973), 134-39
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- Gauss, Carl Friedrich
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- gender theory
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- general will
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- Geulincx, Arnold
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- imperialism
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- impossibility theorem
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- income distribution
- income redistribution
- income statement
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- incrementalism
- independent variable
- indeterminacy of reference and translation
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- indirect tax
- indiscernibility of identicals
- individualism
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- induction
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- industrial democracy
- industrialization
- inevitability of gradualness
- infinite divisibility
- inflation
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- inheritance tax
- innate ideas
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- inscriptionism
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- institutional economics
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- interest rate
- interests
- internal and external balance
- internal colonialism
- internalism
- international morality
- international system
- internationalism
- interwar period
- intuitionism
- invisible hand
- ipso facto
- iron law of oligarchy
- iron law of wages
- irredentism
- IS-LM model
- isolationism
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- James, William
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- Jefferson, Thomas
- joint liability
- joint venture
- Jourdain's paradox
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- Jungian aesthetics
- junk bond
- just price
- just war
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- Kahn, Richard
- Kaldor, Nicholas
- Kalecki, Michal
- kalte kunst
- Kant, Immanuel
- Kepler, Johannes
- Keynes, John Maynard
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- Khmer Rouge
- Kierkegaard, Soren Aabye
- kinetic art
- king's two bodies
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- Kooning, Willem de
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- Kropotkin, Prince Peter
- Kuhn, Thomas Samuel
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- labor force
- labor force participation
- labor force participation rate
- labor-intensive
- labor market discrimination
- labor-productivity
- labor theory of value
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- Laffer curve
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- law of contradiction
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- least cost location theory
- lebensraum
- Lefebvre, Henri
- legal positivism
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- Leibniz, Gottfried Wilhelm
- Leibniz's law
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- Leninism
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- liabilities
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- loanable funds theory of the rate of interest
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- majority
- Malebranche, Nicolas
- Malevich, Kasimir
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- Malthusian population theory
- managerial revolution
- managerial theories of the firm
- managerialism
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- marginal cost pricing
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- Marshall-Lerner principle
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- More, Thomas
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- neo-liberalism
- neo-Marxism
- neo-Platonism
- neo-Pythagoreanism
- neo-Ricardian theory
- neologism
- Netherlands Antilles Association Convention
- Neue Sachlichkeit
- Neumann, John von
- neutral monism
- new age
- new class
- new classical macroeconomics
- new left
- new liberalism
- new riddle of induction
- new right
- Newman, John Henry
- Newton, Isaac
- Nicod, Jean
- Nicod's criterion
- Niebuhr, Reinhold
- Nietzsche, Friedrich
- nihilism
- no-ownership theory of the mind
- noblesse oblige
- nominalism
- non-accelerating inflation rate of unemployment (nairu)
- non-cognitivism
- non-competing groups
- non-nested hypothesis
- non-profit organization
- non sequitur
- noncurrent assets
- nondurable goods
- normal depreciation
- normative economics
- North America
- North, Douglass C.
- not in my back yard (nimby)
- nouveau rialisme
- nouvelle tendance
- novus ordo seclorum
- objective idealism
- objectivism
- occasionalism
- occupation segregation
- Oceania
- Ockham's Razor
- OCT status
- Ohlin, Bertil
- Okun, Arthur
- Okun's law
- oligarchy
- oligopoly
- oligopoly theory
- Olson, Mancur
- one over many principle
- ontology
- op art
- open society
- operating risk
- operationalism
- opportunity cost
- optimal tariff theory
- option pricing theory
- options
- organic theory of the state
- organicism
- Organisation of African Unity
- organization theory
- Origen
- origins of life
- Orphism
- orthodox-economics
- overheated economy
- overkill
- overload theory
- Owenism
- own rate of interest
- Ozenfant, Amédée
- pacifism
- Paine, Thomas
- Palace of Westminster
- panpsychism
- pantheism
- Paolozzi, Eduardo
- para bellum
- paraconsistency
- paradigmatism
- paradox of thrift
- paradox of value
- paradox of voting
- Pareto efficiency
- Pareto optimality
- Pareto, Vilfredo
- parliamentary system
- Parmenides of Elea
- Parsons, Talcott
- partial equilibrium theory
- particularism
- Pascal, Blaise
- Pascal's wager
- paternalism
- patriarchy
- Pax Americana
- Pax Britannica
- Pax Europaea
- Pax Hispanica
- Pax Mongolica
- Pax Ottomana
- Pax Romana
- PCism
- peaceful co-existence
- peak-load pricing
- Peirce, Charles Sanders
- per capita
- perfect competition
- performative theory of negation
- performative theory of truth
- permanent income hypothesis
- permanent revolution
- Perroux, François
- Perry, Ralph Barton
- per annum
- per diem
- per se
- persona non grata
- personal is political
- personalism
- perspective
- perspective realism
- perspectivism
- Petty, William
- phenomenalism
- phenomenology
- Phillips curve
- photo-realism
- physicalism
- Physiocracy
- Picabia, Francis
- Picasso, Pablo
- picture plane
- picture theory of meaning
- picturesque
- piecemeal social engineering
- Pigou, Arthur Cecil
- Pigou effect
- Planck, Max
- Plato
- Platonism
- Plato's theory of forms
- Plotinus
- pluralism
- plurality
- plurality of causes
- plutocracy
- Poincare, Jules Henri
- pointillism
- police state
- policy
- polis
- political business cycle
- political correctness
- political culture
- political obligation
- polyarchy
- Polyclitan school
- pop art
- Popper, Karl
- populism
- portfolio selection theory
- positive law
- positivism
- possibilism
- post-impressionism
- post-materialism
- post-modernism
- post mortem
- post-painterly abstraction
- post scriptum
- posthumous
- Poulantzas, Nicos
- Poussinism
- power
- power corrupts
- pragmatic theory of truth
- pragmatism
- pre-Raphaelite
- Prebisch, Raul
- Prebisch-Singer thesis
- precedent
- preference utilitarianism
- preferred stock
- prescriptivism
- present value
- presidential system
- presiding court official
- price discrimination
- price fixing
- prima facie
- primary liability
- primitivism
- primus inter pares
- principle of atomic uniformity
- principle of charity
- principle of epistemic closure
- principle of humanity
- principle of indifference
- principle of limited independent variety
- principle of organic unities
- principle of parsimony
- principle of perfection
- principle of plenitude
- principle of sufficient reason
- principle of the impossibility of a gambling system
- principle of the uniformity of nature
- print capitalism
- prisoner's dilemma
- private language argument
- privatization
- pro bono
- pro rata
- probabilism
- process art
- process philosophy
- producer price index (ppi)
- product life-cycle theory
- profit
- progress
- proletarianism
- proletariat
- propaganda by the deed
- propensity theory of probability
- property
- property is theft
- proportion
- Protagoras
- Proudhon, Pierre-Joseph
- psychologism
- psychophysical parallelism
- Ptolemy
- public choice
- public interest
- public private divide
- public utility pricing
- purchasing power
- purchasing power parity
- purism
- put option
- Putnam, Hilary
- Pyrrhonism
- Pythagoras of Samos
- Pythagoreanism
- qualified majority
- qualitative research
- quantitative research
- quantity theory of money
- Quesnay, François
- queuing theory
- quid pro quo
- Quincey, Thomas De
- Quine, Willard Van Orman
- quorum
- quota
- Quran
- racism
- radical empiricism
- radical feminism
- radical interpretation
- radicalism
- Rahner, Karl
- raison d'etat
- ramified theory of types
- Ramsey, Frank
- Ramsey pricing
- Rand, Ayn
- random walk hypothesis
- range theories of probability
- rate of return pricing
- rational choice
- rational expectations theory
- rationalism
- rationing
- Rawls, John
- Rawls theory of justice
- rayonism
- Reagan, Ronald
- Reaganomics
- real asset
- real bills doctrine
- real gross domestic product
- real self
- realism
- recession
- recusal
- reductionism
- reductio ad absurdum
- redundancy theory of truth
- refugee
- regionalism
- regression
- regularity theory of causation
- regulation
- regulatory capture
- Reid, Thomas
- relative autonomy
- relative deprivation
- relative income hypothesis
- relativism
- relevance logics
- reliabilism
- rent seeking
- representation
- representationalism
- republicanism
- resemblance theories of universals
- reserve powers
- retributivism
- returns to scale
- revealed preference theory
- revisionism
- revolution
- Ricardian equivalence theorem
- Ricardo, David
- right of legislative initiative
- rights
- Robinson, Joan
- Rodchenko, Alexander
- romanticism
- Rossetti, Dante Gabriel
- roundabout method of production
- Rousseau, Jean-Jacques
- Rubenism
- rule of law
- rule utilitarianism
- Russell, Bertrand
- Rwandan Genocide
- Rybczynski theorem
- Ryle, Gilbert
- Saint Anselm of Canterbury
- Saint Augustine
- Saint Bernard of Clairvaux
- Saint Bonaventure
- Saint John of the Cross
- Saint Teresa of Avila
- salary
- Samuelson, Paul
- Santayana, George
- sapere aude
- Sapir, Edward
- Sartre, Jean-Paul
- satisficing
- satyagraha
- saving
- Say, Jean-Baptiste
- Say's law
- scapigliatura
- Schengen Agreement
- Schengen Area
- Schleiermacher, Friedrich
- Schlick, Moritz
- Schopenhauer, Arthur
- Schrodinger, Erwin
- Schumpeter, Joseph
- Scitovsky paradox
- screening hypothesis
- search theory
- secondary liability
- section d'or
- secular stagnation theory
- security
- segmented labor market theory
- seignorage
- Sellars, Roy Wood
- semantic atomism
- semantics
- semper fidelis
- sensationalism
- sense and reference
- separation of powers
- separatism
- services
- settler colonialism
- sexism
- Sextus Empiricus
- shadow pricing
- shutdown costs
- signalling
- signatory
- signee
- Simele Massacre
- Simon, Herbert
- simple theory of types
- simultaneisme
- sine qua non
- Singer, Hans
- Single European Act (1986)
- single market
- situationism
- skepticism
- Slutsky, Eugen
- Slutsky's theorem
- small is beautiful principle
- Smith, Adam
- social choice
- social contract
- social credit
- social Darwinism
- social democracy
- social welfare function
- socialism
- socialism in one country
- socialist realism
- sociobiology
- Socrates
- solipsism
- Solow economic growth
- Solow, Robert
- Sorel, Georges
- sotto in su
- South America
- sovereignty
- sovereignty-association
- spatialism
- specie-flow mechanism
- species essentialism
- speciesism
- specious present
- speech act theory
- Spencer, Herbert
- Spinoza, Baruch
- spontaneous order
- spot market
- spot price
- Sraffa, Piero
- St. Petersburg paradox
- stages of genocide
- Stalin, Joseph
- Stalinism
- stare decisis
- state
- state capitalism
- state of nature
- statement of cash flows
- static equilibrium
- stationary state
- status quo
- status quo ante
- status quo ante bellum
- Steiner, Rudolf
- stimulus-response model
- stock
- stock-flow analysis
- stock market
- stock option
- Stoicism
- Strawson, Peter Frederick
- strike
- structural functionalism
- structure-conduct-performance theory
- structurism
- sub poena
- subjective idealism
- subjectivism
- subjectivist theories of probability
- sublimity
- subsidiarity
- substitution theory
- subvention
- sui generis
- sunspot theory
- supermajority
- supply
- supply-side economics
- suprematism
- surplus value
- surrealism
- survival of the fittest
- swaps
- symbolism
- synchromism
- syndicalism
- synthetism
- systems theory
- tabula rasa
- tachism
- tacit knowledge
- tangible asset
- target return pricing
- tariff
- Tatlin, Vladimir
- tax incidence
- taxation
- technological gap theory
- teleology
- term structure of interest rates
- terra incognita
- terra nullius
- Thatcherism
- theism
- theories of meaning
- theories of profits
- theory
- theory of clubs
- theory of consumer demand
- theory of descriptions
- theory of effluxes
- theory of income determination
- theory of income distribution
- theory of production
- theory of relevant alternatives
- theory of second best
- theory of speciation
- theory of species
- theory of the core
- theory of the firm
- theory of the growth of the firm
- theory of tropisms
- theory of truth
- third man argument
- Thoreau, Henry David
- three laws of thought
- three worlds theory
- Thunen, Johann von
- Tiebout, Charles
- Tiebout hypothesis
- tight money policy
- Tillich, Paul
- time deposit
- time preference theory of interest
- tit for tat
- Tobin, James
- Torrens, Robert
- toryism
- total war
- totalitarianism
- Toynbee, Arnold
- trace theory of memory
- trade balance
- trade barriers
- trade cycle
- trade deficit
- trade surplus
- tradition
- tragedy of the commons
- trahison des clercs
- transcendental idealism
- Treaty of Lisbon (2007)
- Treaty of London (1949)
- Treaty of Nice (2001)
- Treaty of Paris (1951)
- Treaty of Rome (1957)
- trialism
- trickle-down theory
- triple-e senate
- Tristram Shandy paradox
- trompe I'oeil
- Trotsky, Leon
- Trotskyism
- trust
- truth-conditional semantics
- Turner, Joseph Mallord William
- turnpike theory
- tyranny of the majority
- unanimity
- uncertainty
- underconsumption theory
- unemployment
- unfair competition
- unilateralism
- universalism
- universalizability
- use theories of meaning
- ut pictura poesis
- uti possidetis
- utilitarianism
- utility
- utility function
- utility maximization
- utopianism
- value-added
- value-added tax
- van Gogh, Vincent
- vanguard party
- variable
- variable costs
- Vasarely, Victor
- vault cash
- Veblen effect
- Veblen, Thorstein
- veil of ignorance
- veni, vidi, vici
- vent for surplus
- verbatim
- Verdoorn's law
- verifiability principle
- verismo
- versus
- vertical acquisition
- vertical equity
- vertical merger
- vertical price fixing
- veto
- vicious circle principle
- Vico, Giambattista
- Vienna Circle
- Viner, Jacob
- virtual reality
- virtual representation
- vitalism
- volonte generale
- Voltaire
- voluntarism
- vorticism
- vote of confidence
- vox populi
- wage
- wage differentials
- wage-price spiral
- wages fund doctrine
- Wagner's law
- Wall Street
- Wallerstein, Immanuel
- Walras, Leon
- Walras's stability
- wasting asset
- wear and tear
- Weber, Max
- Weber's theory of the location of the firm
- Weil, Simone
- welfare state
- welfarism
- Westminster system
- white-collar workers
- white man's burden
- Whitehead, Alfred North
- Wicksell, Knut
- Wicksell's theory of capital
- Wicksteed, Philip
- wildcat strike
- William, Nassau
- William of Ockham
- withering away of the state
- windfall profit
- Wittgenstein, Ludwig
- Wollstonecraft, Mary
- workers' control
- working capital
- world society
- writ
- x-efficiency
- x-inefficiency
- Xanthippe
- Xenocrates of Chalcedon
- Xenophanes of Colophon
- xenophobia
- Xenophon of Athens
- xyy syndrome
- yellow book
- yellow-dog contract
- yield
- yield gap
- yield spread
- yield to maturity
- yen
- yin and yang
- yoga
- youth court
- yuan
- z-score
- zapatismo
- Zedong, Mao
- Zeno of Citium
- Zeno of Elea
- zero-sum
- zero tolerance policy
- zionism
- zone pricing
- zoning
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