Hutber's law
Hutber's law states that "improvement means deterioration". It is founded on the cynical observation that a stated improvement actually hides a deterioration.
The term has seen wide application in business, engineering, and risk analysis. It was first articulated in the 1970s by Patrick Hutber, an economist and journalist who was the City Editor for The Sunday Telegraph in London from 1966 to 1979.
See also
- Law (principle)
- List of eponymous laws
- Newspeak
- Parkinson's law
- Unintended consequence
References
- Hutber's law quoted in the House of Commons, 1990
- Passing reference to Hutber's law
- "Leading Article: Figuring it Out," The Guardian. 15 April 1994, p. 21.
- The Scotsman. 13 Sept. 1994.
- Tim Satchell. "Patience is the hardest virtue: Tim Satchell explains why it took two years to secure the money he was owed." Daily Telegraph. 20 January 2001, p. 06.
- "Pay any price to beat poverty." New Statesman. 26 November 2001.
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Unintended consequences
- Abilene paradox
- Adverse effect
- Braess's paradox
- Butterfly effect
- Campbell's law
- Cobra effect
- CSI effect
- Externality
- Excess burden of taxation
- Four Pests campaign
- Goodhart's law
- Hawthorne effect
- Hutber's law
- Hydra effect
- Inverse consequences
- Jevons paradox
- Murphy's law
- Nocebo
- Osborne effect
- Parable of the broken window
- Paradox of enrichment
- Parkinson's law
- Perverse incentive
- Rebound effect (conservation)
- Risk compensation
- Self-defeating prophecy
- Self-refuting idea
- Serendipity
- Social trap
- Streisand effect
- Tragedy of the commons
- Tyranny of small decisions
