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HES: QUERY--"Deadweight Loss"
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[log in to unmask] (Rojhat Berdan Avsar)
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Sun Aug 31 15:46:44 2008
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Dear all,

I was wondering if anybody knows the origin of the term "deadweight loss". I was able to track it down to Hotelling's 1938 Econometrica paper as "dead loss". Is anybody familiar with any previous record of the term? ? 

Thanks,

Rojhat Berdan Avsar

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