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  2. Marginal rate of substitution - Wikipedia

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    Under the standard assumption of neoclassical economics that goods and services are continuously divisible, the marginal rates of substitution will be the same regardless of the direction of exchange, and will correspond to the slope of an indifference curve (more precisely, to the slope multiplied by −1) passing through the consumption bundle in question, at that point: mathematically, it ...

  3. Marginal rate of technical substitution - Wikipedia

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    An isoquant map where Q3 > Q2 > Q1.At any point on any isoquant, the marginal rate of technical substitution is the absolute value of the slope of the isoquant at that point.

  4. Indifference curve - Wikipedia

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    In economics, an indifference ... (x,y), to calculate the MRS, ... If the marginal rate of substitution is diminishing along an indifference curve, that is the ...

  5. Elasticity of substitution - Wikipedia

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    Elasticity of substitution is the ratio of percentage change in capital-labour ratio with the percentage change in Marginal Rate of Technical Substitution. [1] In a competitive market, it measures the percentage change in the two inputs used in response to a percentage change in their prices. [2]

  6. Utility maximization problem - Wikipedia

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    If the two concert prices are the same, the consumer is completely indifferent and may flip a coin to decide. To see this mathematically, differentiate the utility function to find that the MRS is constant - this is the technical meaning of perfect substitutes. As a result of this, the solution to the consumer's constrained maximization problem ...

  7. Samuelson condition - Wikipedia

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    MRS i is individual i 's marginal rate of substitution and MRT is the economy's marginal rate of transformation [2] between the public good and an arbitrarily chosen private good. Note that while the marginal rates of substitution are indexed by individuals, the marginal rate of transformation is not; it is an economy wide rate.

  8. Lindahl tax - Wikipedia

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    α*P (public) /P (else) = MRS (person1) This is just the usual price ratio/marginal rate of substitution deal; the only change is that we multiply P public by α to allow for the price adjustment to the public good. Similarly, Person 2 will choose his bundle such that: (1-ɑ)*P (public) /P (else) = MRS (person2) Now we have both individuals ...

  9. Contract curve - Wikipedia

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    In the case of two goods and two individuals, the contract curve can be found as follows. Here refers to the final amount of good 2 allocated to person 1, etc., and refer to the final levels of utility experienced by person 1 and person 2 respectively, refers to the level of utility that person 2 would receive from the initial allocation without trading at all, and and refer to the fixed total ...