ECON 2202 Lecture 7: Ch2.1-2 the representative firm's problem
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2.1 The consumer's problem
Faces budget constrain
The optimal point
The value of the slope of budget line: wage
MRS = Marginal Utility l / Marginal Utility c = w
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2.2 the representative firm's problem
Assume firm use capital K and labor Nd to produce
output Y.
All wages and profits are in real terms.
The profits the firm makes is the distributed to
consumers as dividends.
The production function
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Y: output
K: capital
Nd: labor demanded (Why we carry d with labor N?
the labor demanded.)
Lecture2
Thursday, September 20, 2018
11:01 AM