Consider a two-good exchange economy withr identical consumers. The consumption set is R, the individual endowments are e R? ,, and the preferences are continuous and strongly monotone but not necessarily convex. Argue that the symmetric allocation in which + + every consumer gets her initial allocation is either a Walrasian equilibrium (for some price vector p) or, if it is not, then for r large enough it is not a Pareto optimum. [Hint: the differentiable case is simpler.]
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