Re: Re:vasudha isi 2012 ME II

Posted by anon_econ on Mar 11, 2012; 5:34am
URL: http://discussion-forum.276.s1.nabble.com/isi-2012-ME-II-tp7354815p7362379.html

Yea the proportion is the same in the INITIAL allocation. Any alternate allocation in which the proportion is still the same can of course not increase somebody's utility w/o decreasing any1 else's, but there can be an alternate allocation in which the proportion is not the same. Y r u taking the set of possible ALTERNATE allocations to be only the ones in which the proportion is the same??
In other words, i'm saying: can somebody be made better off w/o making any1 worse off? possibly yes, if in the new allocation nobody is consuming the same proportion of each good .