Pareto-Optimality
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Title
Pareto-Optimality
Creator
Vilfredo Pareto
Source
Manual of Political Economy
Date
1906
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Text
"We will say that the members of a collectivity enjoy maximium ophelimity in a certain position when it is impossible to find a way of moving from that position very slightly in such a manner that the ophelimity enjoyed by each of the individuals of that collectivity increases or decreases. That is to say, any small displacement in departing from that position necessarily has the effect of increasing the ophelimity which certain individuals enjoy, and decreasing that which others enjoy, of being agreeable to some, and disagreeable to others."
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Citation
Vilfredo Pareto, “Pareto-Optimality,” History of Economics, accessed April 17, 2026, https://www.historysandd.margobergman.org/items/show/55.