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situation in which nothing can be improved without something else being hurt

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In microeconomics, economic efficiency, depending on the context, is usually one of the following two related concepts:

Allocative or Pareto efficiency: any changes made to assist one person would harm another.

Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “economic efficiency” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.