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According to colleague Dan Ariely PhD, the Scitovsky Paradox and using the Kaldor–Hicks criterion, allocation A may be more efficient than allocation B, while at the same time B is more efficient than A.
Moreover, the Scitovsky paradox in welfare economics which is resolved by stating that there is no increase in social welfare by a return to the original part of the losers. It is named after the Hungarian born American economist, Tibor Scitovsky. According to Scitovsky, ther Kaldor-Hicks criterion involves contradictory and inconsistent results.
What Scitovsky demonstrated was it is possible that if an allocation A is deemed superior to another allocation B by the Kaldor compensation criteria, then by a subsequent set of moves by the same criteria, we can prove that B is also superior to A.
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