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An economy has achieved ____ if it has not passed up any opportunities to make some people better off without making others worse off. ? efficiency ? a global maximum ? utility ? equity

          An economy has achieved ____ if it has not passed up any opportunities to make some people better off without making others worse off.
? efficiency
? a global maximum
? utility
? equity
        
An economy has achieved  if it has not passed up any opportunities to make some people better off without making others worse off.
? efficiency
? a global maximum
? utility
? equity

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00:01 Okay, so resource use is said to be efficient when all of the resources are being allocated in such a way that it makes someone well off by not making someone else worse off.
00:10 So the issue of allocating resources efficiently arises due to the problem of scarcity...
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