Harbergerian

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English

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Etymology

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From Harberger +‎ -ian.

Adjective

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Harbergerian (not comparable)

  1. (economics) Of or pertaining to Arnold Harberger (born 1924), American economist.
    • 1992, Raaj K. Sah, Joseph E. Stiglitz, “An Approach to Applied Welfare Economics”, in Peasants versus City-Dwellers: Taxation and the Burden of Economic Development, Oxford: Oxford University Press, published 2005, →ISBN, page 33:
      We share with the earlier Harbergerian approach a concern for general-equilibrium price effects—a concern which was explored only under very special assumptions in the recent literature on optimal taxation.