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Given some endowment in an Edgeworth box
Edgeworth box

In economics, an Edgeworth box, named after Francis Ysidro Edgeworth, is a way of representing various dist






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Given some endowment in an Edgeworth box
Edgeworth box

In economics, an Edgeworth box, named after Francis Ysidro Edgeworth, is a way of representing various distributions of Resource . Edgeworth made his presentation in his famous book, Mathematical Psychics: An essay on the application of mathematics to the moral sciences, 1881....
, the contract curve is the individually rational subset of the Pareto set
Pareto set

In microeconomics in general, and game theory in particular, the Pareto set, named after economist Vilfredo Pareto, is the set of all Pareto efficiency outcomes....
. In other words, it is the set of Pareto efficient allocations in an economy. Also, any Walrasian equilibrium lies in the contract curve of the Pareto set.

On the contract curve, the marginal rate of substitution
Marginal rate of substitution

In economics, the marginal rate of substitution is the rate at which a consumer is ready to give up one good in exchange for another good while maintaining the same level of satisfaction....
 is the same for both agents.

See welfare economics
Welfare economics

Welfare economics is a branch of economics that uses microeconomics techniques to simultaneously determine allocative efficiency within an economy and the income Distribution associated with it....
 and list of economics topics
List of economics topics

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