Off List Re: Marxism At Yale

[Forstater, Mathew]

Pareto also said that men have a greater capacity for pleasure than
women and the rich have a greater capacity for pleasure than the poor.
Thus no "interpersonal utility comparisons."  (Pareto and others were
faced with the possibility that their theory could be used to argue for
a completely egalitarian redistribution of income.)

Peter Kosenko wrote:


>By the way, one of my econo-trained-monkey-MBA dear close friends 
>sent me a response that Rawls sounded to him like "Pareto 
>optimality" (whatever the hell that is -- I've heard it used).

Pareto optimality is the condition in which no member of a society 
can be made better off without making someone else worse off.

Pareto himself was quite an elitist and often is taken as something 
of a fascist.

Doug