ECON 401 Chapter Notes - Chapter 2: Budget Constraint, Substitute Good, Opportunity Cost
Chapter 2: Budget Restraint
• economists assume that consumers choose the best bundle goods they can
afford
2.1 The Budget Constraint
• budget constraint: requires that the amount of money spent on two goods
be no more than the total amount the consumer has to spend
• affordable consumption bundles: consumption bundles that don't cost any
more than m
• consumption bundle: a list of two numbers that tells us how much the
consumer is choosing to consume of good one and good two (x1, x2)
• budget set: affordable consumption bundles at prices and income
m. Anything on or below the budget line.
•
2.2 Two Goods Are Often Enough
• (where )
• Composite good: everything else a consumer might want to consume other
than good 1
2.3 Properties of the Budget Set
• budget line: a set of bundles that cost exactly m
o
• budget line slope:
o the rate at which the market is willing to substitute good 1 for good 2
o measures the opportunity cost of consuming good 1 in terms of good
2
• budget line vertical intercept:
• budget line horizontal intercept:
2.4 How the Budget Line Changes
• what happens to the budget line if income increases? The budget line shifts
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