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but this argument of Pareto efficiency is about efficiency.
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Maybe you could hurt A to help B
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because that serves your desire for fairness,
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but that doesn't say anything about how efficient the allocation is.
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It's still true that the original allocation was
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efficient in the sense you couldn't make anyone better off.
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So the economists would say in order to hurt A and help B what
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you should do is take some of A's endowment away from him and
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give it to her and then let them trade to a new competitive
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equilibrium where she began with more than him.
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And so the just thing to do is to rearrange the resources at
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the beginning and still let people trade to a final allocation.