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Qué (quién) es second best - definición

First Best; First best; Second best; Second Best; The theory of a second-best solution; Theory of Second Best; Theory of the Second Best; The Second Best Theorem

second best         
adj. to come off second best
second best         
¦ adjective next after the best.
¦ noun a less adequate or less desirable alternative.
second best         
also second-best
1.
Second best is used to describe something that is not as good as the best thing of its kind but is better than all the other things of that kind.
He put on his second best suit...
ADJ: usu ADJ n
2.
You can use second best to describe something that you have to accept even though you would have preferred something else.
He refused to settle for anything that was second best.
ADJ
Second best is also a noun.
Oatmeal is a good second best.
N-SING

Wikipedia

Theory of the second best

In welfare economics, the theory of the second best (also known as the general theory of second best or the second best theorem) concerns the situation when one or more optimality conditions cannot be satisfied. The economists Richard Lipsey and Kelvin Lancaster showed in 1956, that if one optimality condition in an economic model cannot be satisfied, it is possible that the next-best solution involves changing other variables away from the values that would otherwise be optimal. Politically, the theory implies that if it is infeasible to remove a particular market distortion, introducing one or more additional market distortions in an interdependent market may partially counteract the first, and lead to a more efficient outcome.

Ejemplos de uso de second best
1. India has been Asia‘s second–best performing market in 2005.
2. Or rather, money buys only the second–best option.
3. Unable to provide security, Hamas aimed for second best.
4. Thought for Today: "There is only one real sin, and that is to persuade oneself that the second–best is anything but the second–best." _ Doris Lessing, British Nobel Prize–winning author.
5. A second–best scenario would be for a sharp, but still short, recession.