In cooperative game theory, the core is the set of feasible allocations that cannot be improved upon by a subset (a "coalition") of the economy's agents. A coalition is said to "improve upon" or "block" a feasible allocation if the members of that coalition are better off under another feasible allocation that is identical to the first except that every member of the coalition has a different consumption bundle that is part of an aggregate consumption bundle that can be constructed from publicly available technology and the initial endowments of each consumer in the coalition.