A policy which gains the winners more than the losers lose, in principle, could never result in unanimous approval of the policy. 

Answer the following statement true (T) or false (F)


False

Rationale: One way to think about welfare effects from policy changes is that if the winners gain more than the losers lose, and compensate the losers, it is possible, in principle, that there would be unanimous approval of the policy.

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