Consider the following economy with two goods, x and y, and two consumers, A and B. The tastes of the two consumers are represented by the following utility functions. ua = min(xA, YA) and ug = min(xB, YB). There are 10 units of good x and 10 units of good y that are available in this economy, so that SO XA + XB = 10 and ya + yB = 10. The two consumers cannot consume negative amount of each good, i.e., xA 2 0, xB > 0, ya 2 0, and yß 2 0.

Consider the following economy with two goods, x and y, and two consumers, A and B. The tastes of the two consumers are represented by the following utility functions. ua = min(xA, YA) and ug = min(xB, YB). There are 10 units of good x and 10 units of good y that are available in this economy, so that SO XA + XB = 10 and ya + yB = 10. The two consumers cannot consume negative amount of each good, i.e., xA 2 0, xB > 0, ya 2 0, and yß 2 0.

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Chapter6: Consumer Choice Theory

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