Loose Leaf Microeconomics with Connect
Loose Leaf Microeconomics with Connect
10th Edition
ISBN: 9781259693953
Author: David C Colander
Publisher: McGraw-Hill Education
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Explain the Pareto optimal policy.

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The Pareto optimal policy is the policy that benefits some people and does not hurt anyone. In real life, it is not that much possible like a Pareto optimal policy. Even though, if one could see other social values as being inviolate. For the most part, these problems are theoretical, since no such legislation may actually exist. All the real-world polices make some people better off and some people worse off.

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