Give some stream of consciousness and then the answer. A deadweight loss, also known as excess burden or allocative inefficiency, is a loss of economic efficiency that can occur when equilibrium for a good or a service is not achieved. That can be caused by monopoly pricing in the case of artificial scarcity, an externality, a tax or subsidy, or a binding price ceiling or price floor such as a minimum wage.\n\nAnswer this question: deadweight loss measures the inefficiency as the loss of?
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This is the relevant information: A deadweight loss, also known as excess burden or allocative inefficiency, is a loss of economic efficiency that can occur when equilibrium for a good or a service is not achieved.
Therefore, the answer is economic efficiency.
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