Usually means: Loss of economic efficiency overall.
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▸ noun:  (economics) A loss of economic efficiency due to failure to achieve a free market equilibrium.

Similar:
deadweight, dead weight, dead loss, ineconomy, natural wastage, loss, disutility, default, deadload, dead wood, more...

Opposite:
efficiency gain, welfare gain, surplus gain

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Similar:
deadweight, dead weight, dead loss, ineconomy, natural wastage, loss, disutility, default, deadload, dead wood, more...

Opposite:
efficiency gain, welfare gain, surplus gain



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