Dictionary

Glossary of game theory terms.

Pareto Dominated

An outcome of a game is Pareto dominated if some other outcome would make at least one player better off without hurting any other player. That is, some other outcome is weakly preferred by all players and strictly preferred by at least one player. If an outcome is not Pareto dominated by any other, than it is Pareto optimal, named after Vilfredo Pareto.

updated: 15 August 2005
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