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<p>In <a href="page.php?w=welfare_economics">welfare economics</a>, a <b>Pareto improvement</b> formalizes the idea of an outcome being "better in every possible way". A change is called a Pareto improvement if it leaves at least one person in society better off without leaving anyone else worse off than they were before. A situation is called <b>Pareto efficient</b> or <b>Pareto optimal</b> if all possible Pareto improvements have already been made; in other words, there are no longer any ways left to make one person better off without making some</p><p>
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