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Pareto efficiency

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Pareto efficiency or Pareto optimality is a situation where no action or allocation is available that makes one individual better off without making another worse off . The concept is named after Vilfredo Pareto (1848–1923), Italian civil engineer and economist, who used the concept in his studies of economic efficiency and income distribution. The following three concepts are closely related:

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