Principles of Microeconomics
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Chapter22: Frontiers Of Microeconomics
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Transcribed Image Text:Question 10 General Equilibrium and Social
Welfare
1. Precisely define 'Pareto improvement.
2. Precisely define 'Pareto efficiency'.
3. BONUS: Pick either i) the Utilitarian (developed by Jeremy Bentham, the guy
you saw in the lecture video and whose stuffed body is displayed inside my
old college, University College London) or ii) the Rawlsian social welfare
function.
Define it (in words or using a formula). Then explain what the social welfare
function you picked implies for the allocation of goods between people.
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