ECON2201 Chapter Notes - Chapter 2: Budget Constraint, Opportunity Cost
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Economists assume that consumers choose the best bundle that they can afford. The consumption bundle (x1, x2) tells us how much the consumer is choosing to consume each good. The budget constraint requires that the amount of money the consumer is spending on the two goods can be no more than the total amount that the consumer has to spend = budget set. The two good assumption allows you to think of good 1 as one good, and good 2 as everything else that the consumer could be spending their money on. Because the amount of money spent on good one plus the amount of money spent on all other goods cannot be more than total income. The budget line is the set of bundles that costs exactly m, or income. The slope of the budget line measures the opportunity cost of consuming good 1.
