Microeconomics
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ISBN: 9781260507140
Author: David C. Colander
Publisher: McGraw Hill Education
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Granny lives in the Woods and consumes only bread and fruits. One week she falls ill and has to ask her niece, Red, to buy her weekly food. Red lives in the City, where the price of fruit is $ 2 per kilogram and the price of bread is also $ 2 per loaf. Red knows that Granny's utility function is given by U(f, b) = In (f) + 2 In (b) and that Granny has allocated $ 60 of her income for food each week. Heading to Granny's house in the Woods with the food bought from the City in her basket, Red unexpectedly meets the infamous trader B. B. Wolf, which offers to buy or sell food at a price of $ 3per kilogram of fruits, and $ 6per loaf of bread. Show graphically, what is the Red's budget line before meeting with Wolf and the budghet line after meeting with Wolf?
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Economists suggest that common people consciously equate marginal utility with price as they are shopping for groceries, but I don't think anyone else but economists may do this and I suspect even they slip up. It is ridiculous to describe consumer behavior in terms of a theory that consumers have never even heard of. Humans are not super calculators. Many times people buy things on a whim. For example, I buy chewing gum at the checkout counter and it is not on my original list of items to purchase.
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Is the Homo Economicus assumption, that is, humans have the super-cognitive ability, are super-rational, and possess full information of all relevant costs, tradeoffs, budget available, and consequences, a reasonable assumption, or is there some other psychological model of consumer behavior that seem s more reasonable and explain observed human behavior well.
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