Category
page 1Eponymous laws of economics
Okun's law
economic relationship
Gresham's law
monetary principle on circulating currency; "bad money drives out good"
Parkinson's law
adage that work expands to fill the time available
Say's law
concept in market economics
Metcalfe's law
empirical rule that the value of a telecommunications network is proportional to the square of its number of users
Engel's law
empirical observation in economics that as income rises, less is spent on food
Goodhart's law
adage that when a measure becomes a target, it ceases to be a good measure
Taylor rule
reduced form approximation of the responsiveness of the nominal interest rate, as set by the central bank, to changes in inflation, output, or other economic conditions
Walras' law
principle in general equilibrium theory that budget constraints imply that the values of excess demand sum to zero regardless of whether the prices are general equilibrium prices
Campbell's law
adage about perverse incentives
Wagner's law
economic theory of development
Hotelling's law
economic principle regarding competition

Monetae cudendae ratio
1526 paper on coinage by Copernicus
Reed's law
Value of a network is 2^n. Based on expoentual increase in sub groups formable
Verdoorn's law
economic relationship between growth in output and growth in productivity
Thirlwall's Law
economics model concerning balance of payments