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相切条件
消费者的最优选择是预算线所能触及的最高无差异曲线;在内部最优解处满足相切条件,MRS 等于价格比率,即消费者愿意交易的比例等于市场所要求的比例。
1. The best affordable bundle
The best affordable bundle
2. Tangency as an equation
Tangency as an equation
3. Checking it with Cobb-Douglas
Checking it with Cobb-Douglas
4. When tangency is not enough
When tangency is not enough
5. Why crossing fails
At a bundle where the indifference curve crosses the budget line, why is that bundle not optimal?
6. The condition in words
What does the tangency condition MRS equal to p1 over p2 mean economically?
7. A bargain off tangency
Suppose the MRS at the current bundle is 3 while the price ratio is 1, good one is cheap relative to how it is valued. What happens?
8. The Cobb-Douglas check
For u equal to x1 x2 with income 20 and prices 1 and 1, where is the optimum and why?
9. Tangency point utility
For u equal to x1 x2 with income 20 and equal prices, compute the utility at the optimal bundle, and write the number.
10. A crossing bundle's level
The indifference curve x1 x2 equal to 75 crosses the same budget at two bundles. Compute x1 at the crossing where x2 equals 15, and write the number.
11. The prize for climbing
The curve x1 x2 equals 75 crosses the budget at (5, 15), while the tangent curve reaches 100. What is the utility gain from climbing to the tangency?
12. Tangency alone is not a certificate
Why is finding a tangency point not enough to declare an optimum?
13. Tangency with unequal prices
For u of x1 x2 with income 20 and prices 2 and 1, where is the optimum?
14. Counting intersections
How does the tangent curve x1 x2 equals 100 meet the budget x1 plus x2 equals 20, compared with the curve at 75?
15. Utility under unequal prices
For u of x1 x2 with income 20 and prices 2 and 1, compute the utility at the optimal bundle, and write the number.
16. The MRS at a crossing
At the crossing bundle (5, 15) on the curve x1 x2 equals 75, compute the absolute MRS, and write the number.