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Wikipedia is a free, collaboratively edited online encyclopedia hosted by the Wikimedia Foundation. Its economics and biography articles are used throughout this atlas as a secondary, frequently updated reference alongside academic and official sources.

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Wikimedia Foundation
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https://www.wikipedia.org
Source Type
encyclopedia
Reliability Tier
2
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Claims Backed By This Source (972 claims)

This source backs 972 claims across the atlas. As facts: 699 well-attested, 6 scholarly debate. As cited relationships: 135 holds, 96 connected, 12 critiqued Here, 4 rejected Here, 3 held Differently. Plus 17 entities citing it as a general reference with no single fact or relationship attached.

Disposition By Topic

  • Institutions, 299 claims: 221 well-attested, 61 holds, 13 connected, 1 critiqued Here, 3 general references.
  • Events, 184 claims: 129 well-attested, 1 scholarly debate, 4 holds, 45 connected, 2 critiqued Here, 3 general references.
  • Concepts, 164 claims: 120 well-attested, 3 scholarly debate, 25 holds, 9 connected, 7 general references.
  • Economists, 154 claims: 95 well-attested, 39 holds, 14 connected, 4 critiqued Here, 2 general references.
  • Schools of Thought, 75 claims: 43 well-attested, 2 scholarly debate, 6 holds, 12 connected, 5 critiqued Here, 4 rejected Here, 3 held Differently.
  • Economic Indicators, 39 claims: 39 well-attested.
  • Sources, 30 claims: 29 well-attested, 1 general references.
  • Open Questions, 27 claims: 23 well-attested, 3 connected, 1 general references.

Well-attested

699

Concepts

Balance of PaymentsBusiness CycleCentral Bank IndependenceComparative AdvantageConsumer SurplusCreative DestructionDeadweight LossDiminishing Marginal ReturnsDouble-Entry BookkeepingElasticity of DemandExternalitiesFiat CurrencyFiscal MultiplierGresham's LawGross Domestic ProductInflationInvisible HandLaffer CurveLean ProductionLiquidity TrapMarginal UtilityMinimum WageMoral HazardOpportunity CostPareto EfficiencyPhillips CurveProperty RightsPurchasing Power ParityQuantitative EasingSay's LawScientific ManagementSunk CostSupply and DemandThe CommonsTragedy of the CommonsTransaction Costs

Economic Indicators

Average Weekly HoursBloomberg US Aggregate Bond IndexChained Consumer Price Index (C-CPI-U)Construction SpendingCredit SpreadDiscouraged WorkerEase of doing business indexEconomic Complexity IndexEmployment rateEmployment-to-Population RatioEnergy intensityForeign Direct Investment (FDI)Foreign Exchange ReservesGDP Growth Rate

Showing 1 to 50 of 242 entities carrying this claim.

Scholarly debate

6

Concepts

Laffer CurveMinimum WageMoral Hazard

Events

Black Monday (1987)

Schools of Thought

Neoclassical SynthesisStockholm School

Holds

135

Concepts

Adverse SelectionCoase TheoremCreative DestructionCrowding Out (Economics)Fiscal MultiplierGross Domestic ProductHuman CapitalLaffer CurveLean ProductionMarkgenossenschaftMinimum WageOkun's LawPareto EfficiencyPublic GoodRicardian EquivalenceSay's LawSunk CostThe CommonsTime Value of MoneyVeblen Good

Economists

Alan GreenspanAlfred MarshallAnna SchwartzAnne Robert Jacques TurgotArthur LafferBruno FreyCelso FurtadoClaudia GoldinDaniel KahnemanDavid RicardoElinor OstromEsther DufloFriedrich A. HayekHa-Joon ChangJagdish BhagwatiJames M. BuchananJoan RobinsonJohn Maynard KeynesJoseph SchumpeterJustin Yifu LinKaname AkamatsuKaushik BasuMichal KaleckiPaul VolckerPrasanta Chandra MahalanobisRagnar NurkseRichard KahnRobert Lucas Jr.Samir AminSimon Kuznets

Showing 1 to 50 of 120 entities carrying this claim.

Connected

96

Events

Wall Street Crash of 1929

Institutions

Bank of CanadaBank of EnglandBasel Committee on Banking SupervisionDeutsche BundesbankFinancial Stability BoardGroup of Seven (G7)Group of Twenty (G20)International Labour OrganizationMoody's Investors ServiceReserve Bank of IndiaSwiss National BankUnited Nations Conference on Trade and Development

Open Questions

Can the unimproved value of land be assessed separately from the buildings and improvements upon it accurately enough, in practice, for a land value tax to work as Georgism's theory intends?Does a Higher Minimum Wage Reduce Low-Wage Employment?Does cutting tax rates below their observed real-world range actually raise government revenue, as the Laffer Curve implies is possible?

Schools of Thought

Austrian SchoolBloomington SchoolCambridge SchoolEvolutionary EconomicsGeorgismLausanne SchoolNeoclassical SynthesisNew Classical EconomicsNew Keynesian EconomicsStockholm School

Showing 51 to 76 of 76 entities carrying this claim.

Critiqued Here

12

Economists

Adam SmithAmartya SenElinor OstromRobert Lucas Jr.

Events

Asian Financial Crisis (1997-98)European Debt Crisis

Institutions

Bank of England

Schools of Thought

Austrian SchoolCambridge SchoolEvolutionary EconomicsMarxian EconomicsNew Keynesian Economics

Rejected Here

4

Schools of Thought

Austrian SchoolMonetarist EconomicsNeoclassical SynthesisNew Classical Economics

Held Differently

3

Schools of Thought

New Keynesian EconomicsStockholm SchoolSupply-Side Economics

General References

17

Concepts

Double-Entry BookkeepingExternalitiesGresham's LawSay's LawScientific ManagementThe Commons

Economists

Jean-Baptiste SayRichard Kahn

Events

COVID-19 Economic StimulusGreat DepressionSong Dynasty Paper Money (Jiaozi)

Institutions

Fundo Garantidor de CréditosLima Stock ExchangeShenzhen Stock Exchange

Open Questions

Should New Institutional Economics Be Modeled as a School of Thought?

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