Entropy in Economics

Original by Chris Hillman (Last modified by Chris Hillman 2 Feb 2001.)


One of the first applications of Shannon's concept of information to economics was a famous paper by Kelley, who was able to show that mutual information can be interpreted in a certain gambling model as measuring the expected rate of financial loss by the gambler. Since then, many other applications have been made.


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