Consider the Prisoners' Dilemma game,and suppose one player confesses but the other player does not confess.This outcome is
A) a Nash equilibrium.
B) Pareto optimal.
C) a Pareto improvement over the outcome where both players confess.
D) Pareto-inferior to the outcome where neither player confesses.

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In the Prisoners' Dilemma, if one player confesses and the other does not, the outcome is Pareto optimal because no player can be made better off without making the other worse off.

Consider the Prisoners' Dilemma Game,and Suppose One Player Confesses but the Other