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Pareto optimum: A Pareto optimum is a state in which no one can be made better off without making someone else worse off. It is a state in which all resources are allocated in the most efficient way possible. See also Efficiency, Strategies.
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Neoclassical Economics on Pareto Optimum - Dictionary of Arguments

Mause I 54f
Pareto-Optimum/Neoclassical Theory: A situation in which no individual can be better off without another individual being worse off; the terms "pareto-optimal" and "efficient" are used synonymously in the total analysis.
>Neoclassical economics
, >Efficiency.
This pareto ooptimum is the content of the first main clause of welfare economics. Ultimately, this result is the basis for the neoclassical justification of the performance or superiority of the market economy.
Problem: the conditions necessary for equilibrium are never fulfilled in reality.
>Equilibrium, >Equilibrium theories.

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The note [Concept/Author], [Author1]Vs[Author2] or [Author]Vs[term] resp. "problem:"/"solution:", "old:"/"new:" and "thesis:" is an addition from the Dictionary of Arguments. If a German edition is specified, the page numbers refer to this edition.
Neoclassical Economics
Mause I
Karsten Mause
Christian Müller
Klaus Schubert,
Politik und Wirtschaft: Ein integratives Kompendium Wiesbaden 2018


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