Talk:Ratchet effect

the rachet animation is brilliant, but demonstrates a ratchet, (socket wrench) and not the rachet effect

Would it be appropriate to add an example on the increasing powers granted to security agencies in democracies?
Would it be appropriate to add an example on the increasing powers granted to security agencies in democracies? The erosion of rights is a double ratchet: powers granted ratchet up within a nation, and the examples of other nations are used to ratchet up the powers granted within nations behind the curve.

Although these powers can and are revoked occaisionally, the same applies to the removal of beaurocracies given in other examples. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 210.8.170.141 (talk) 04:28, 17 March 2008 (UTC)

I'd say, find a reliable source to cite. If you can, then go ahead and put it in. Right now several examples lack citations; I just removed one of these for being manifestly wrong (see below). Dausuul (talk) 16:38, 2 September 2010 (UTC)

Removed Obesity Example
The claim that adipocytes never die is false and has been debunked: http://www.abc.net.au/rn/talks/8.30/helthrpt/stories/s20847.htm http://www.nytimes.com/2008/05/05/health/research/05fat.html?_r=1

As such, in the absence of any citations for this example, I have removed it. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Dausuul (talk • contribs) 16:31, 2 September 2010 (UTC)

Would Jevon's Paradox be an example?
Jevons paradox describes the idea of efficiency in energy leading to increase in the consumption due to a fall in price. I've never heard of the rachet effect, would it be applicable. If so, it might be worth adding a few links and maybe a paragraph? Thekappen (talk) 22:28, 19 March 2012 (UTC)

Keith Joseph has priority over Robert Higgs
The use of the term to describe irreversible government expansion by Keith Joseph (Margaret Thatcher's policy adviser) in the 1970s predates the publication of Higgs's Crisis and Leviathan. The term is well known in this connection in the UK, and associated with Thatcherism, though perhaps less so in the US. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 86.166.43.48 (talk) 17:47, 22 August 2012 (UTC)

The first reference.
Citing Thomas Malthus as support for this statement, really? — Preceding unsigned comment added by 207.229.172.72 (talk) 23:19, 1 March 2018 (UTC)