SAN JOSÉ STATE UNIVERSITY
ECONOMICS DEPARTMENT
Thayer Watkins

Suboptimization

Suboptimization is a term that has been adopted for a common policy mistake. It refers to the practice of focusing on one component of a total and making changes intended to improve that one component and ignoring the effects on the other components. The nature of the problem is most easily understood from examples.

Examples of Suboptimization

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