If Kaldor-Hicks is treated as a principled extension rather than a departure from Paretian welfare economics, the claim that Pareto reasoning is silent on most policy questions is overstated.

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Kaldor-Hicks efficiency(as used in economics and policy evaluation): A way to judge whether a policy is good by checking if the people who benefit could theoretically give money to those who lose and still come out ahead overall.
Paretian welfare economics(as used in economics): An approach to economics named after Vilfredo Pareto that says a change is good only if it makes at least one person better off without making anyone worse off.
Pareto reasoning(as used in policy analysis): Using the Pareto principle (that a change is only clearly good if nobody gets hurt) to evaluate whether policies or decisions are beneficial.
Vilfredo Pareto(as the originator of Paretian concepts): An Italian economist and sociologist from the late 1800s who developed ideas about efficiency and fairness by looking at whether people's well-being can be improved without making someone else worse off.

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