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Meanwhile, everyone who is not a current elected official of the Republican Party or a New Classical Economist more or less believes that in practice, markets are constrained pareto inefficient, such that Government intervention can and should make everyone better off.

Matthew Yglesias » Free Lunch With John Boehner 2009

Yet immigrants and their leaders refuse to even consider a Coasian pareto improving deal where they would give some of the benefits to the Americans, for example by paying in order to enter.

Borjas: What's His Problem?, Bryan Caplan | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty 2009

Conservatives have decided, in the face of the largest market failure in decades, to double down on the idea that an unconstrained free market is always and everywhere pareto efficient, which is to say, no government regulation can make everyone better off.

Matthew Yglesias » Free Lunch With John Boehner 2009

To sum up, pareto improvements are only difficult because Republicans are allowed anywhere near policymaking.

Matthew Yglesias » Free Lunch With John Boehner 2009

His decision I suppose was pareto optimal for his side: he basically knew the Second Amendment would be incorporated, and if he could get Slaughterhouse overruled, all the better.

The Volokh Conspiracy » “Despite High Court Skepticism, Advocates Defend Privileges Clause Push” 2010

Therefore, when discussing the merits of offloading the business from the government's balance sheets as a going concern, one must consider both sides of the balance sheet -- if the government achieves poor marginal utility from the assets with regard to their pareto efficiency, then the government's costs are also likely to be larger than those which would be imposed upon a more efficient manager of those assets.

Japan's Debt Conundrum Michael Cucek 2010

His decision I suppose was pareto optimal for his side: he basically knew the Second Amendment would be incorporated, and if he could get Slaughterhouse overruled, all the better.

The Volokh Conspiracy » “Despite High Court Skepticism, Advocates Defend Privileges Clause Push” 2010

In a similar vein, it seems like there is a privatized transaction that utilizes the C4C program that could result in a pareto improvement.

The Volokh Conspiracy » Is Cash for Clunkers Really Win-Win, as Representative Carnahan Says? 2009

Is it really possible that someone is so pareto challenged that in a bid to make the world a cleaner place, they focus on … excercise balls?

Coyote Blog » 2009 » March 2009

You are not considering the systematic effects of the decision, say if the above decision signals to rich people that they can drink and drive and buy their way out it, then this would not lead to "pareto optimal" outcomes for those innocent pedestrians who would be hit even though it may increase the surplus of his relatives.

Fox News Roundup, David Henderson | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty 2009