Allocative efficiency

Distributive efficiency

Dynamic efficiency

is the most-discussed type of financial market efficiency.

Informational efficiency

Kaldor–Hicks efficiency

Operational efficiency

Pareto efficiency

Productive efficiency

Optimisation of a

social welfare function

maximization

Utility

X-inefficiency

Economic efficiency can be characterized in many ways:

Applications of these principles include:

Business efficiency

Compensation principle

Distribution (economics)

Economic equilibrium

Pareto efficiency

Uneconomic growth

Zero-sum game

Patnaik, Prabhat (1997). "On the Concept of Efficiency". Economic and Political Weekly. October 25, 1997.

article by Paul Heyne

"Efficiency"