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allocative

[al-uh-kayt-iv]

adjective

  1. relating to or involving allocation, especially of resources to be designated for specific projects or recipients.



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Beginning in the 1960s, conservative scholars at the University of Chicago argued for applying economic analysis, particularly theories about prices and allocative efficiency, to legal questions like antitrust.

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Economists describe the process in terms of “allocative efficiency”: All else equal, the higher the volume of matchmaking, the better will be the matches.

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In countries where the state has withdrawn from key markets, leaving a number of allocative functions to the private sector, domestic or foreign, the result was more about state building than about state shrinking or retreating.

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The Board of Fisheries and Board of Game are responsible for most policy and allocative decisions; the Alaska Department of Fish and Game is responsible for day-to-day management.

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And for solving the allocative problems it brings.

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