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Aha. Good clarification.

One challenge seems to be persuading everyone to start thinking economic implications through in these deeper terms, so that it's no longer possible to play the shell game successfully.

by ThatBritGuy (thatbritguy (at) googlemail.com) on Wed Jun 14th, 2006 at 10:54:25 AM EST
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Pareto succeeded 150 years ago. Then people decided holding two criteria of goodness in your head at the same time (say, guns and butter) was too much effort, and lent itself to uncomfortable questions, and "progressed" backwards to Kaldor-Hicks.

guaranteed to evoke a violent reaction from police is to challenge their right to "define the situation." --- David Graeber citing Marc Cooper
by Migeru (migeru at eurotrib dot com) on Wed Jun 14th, 2006 at 10:59:16 AM EST
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