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Pareto optimality

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Pareto optimality (uncountable)

An allocation of resources such that no other allocation makes any one individual better off without making another worse off

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The price-tax conditions necessary to sustain the Pareto optimality of a competitive market solution under the assumed convexity conditions are tantamount to standard Pigovian rules, with neither taxes imposed upon, nor compensation paid to, the victims of externalities. William J. Baumol

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