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  2. Pareto efficiency - Wikipedia

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    Constrained Pareto efficiency is a weakening of Pareto optimality, accounting for the fact that a potential planner (e.g., the government) may not be able to improve upon a decentralized market outcome, even if that outcome is inefficient. This will occur if it is limited by the same informational or institutional constraints as are individual ...

  3. Multi-objective optimization - Wikipedia

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    Multi-objective optimization or Pareto optimization (also known as multi-objective programming, vector optimization, multicriteria optimization, or multiattribute optimization) is an area of multiple-criteria decision making that is concerned with mathematical optimization problems involving more than one objective function to be optimized simultaneously.

  4. Efficient approximately fair item allocation - Wikipedia

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    Both are guaranteed to return an allocation with no envy-cycles. However, the allocation is not guaranteed to be Pareto-efficient. The Approximate-CEEI mechanism returns a partial EF1 allocation for arbitrary preference relations. It is PE w.r.t. the allocated objects, but not PE w.r.t. all objects (since some objects may remain unallocated). [3]

  5. Economic efficiency - Wikipedia

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    The first fundamental welfare theorem provides some basis for the belief in efficiency of market economies, as it states that any perfectly competitive market equilibrium is Pareto efficient. The assumption of perfect competition means that this result is only valid in the absence of market imperfections , which are significant in real markets.

  6. Pareto front - Wikipedia

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    In multi-objective optimization, the Pareto front (also called Pareto frontier or Pareto curve) is the set of all Pareto efficient solutions. [1] The concept is widely used in engineering . [ 2 ] : 111–148 It allows the designer to restrict attention to the set of efficient choices, and to make tradeoffs within this set, rather than ...

  7. Efficient cake-cutting - Wikipedia

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    Efficient cake-cutting is a problem in economics and computer science.It involves a heterogeneous resource, such as a cake with different toppings or a land with different coverings, that is assumed to be divisible - it is possible to cut arbitrarily small pieces of it without destroying their value.

  8. Pareto principle - Wikipedia

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    The Pareto principle may apply to fundraising, i.e. 20% of the donors contributing towards 80% of the total. The Pareto principle (also known as the 80/20 rule, the law of the vital few and the principle of factor sparsity [1] [2]) states that for many outcomes, roughly 80% of consequences come from 20% of causes (the "vital few").

  9. Welfare economics - Wikipedia

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    Welfare economics is a field of economics that applies microeconomic techniques to evaluate the overall well-being (welfare) of a society. [1]The principles of welfare economics are often used to inform public economics, which focuses on the ways in which government intervention can improve social welfare.