Chapter 4: Tastes and Indifference Curves

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Complete & Transitive Tastes

Tastes & Indifference Curves

Marginal Rate of Substitution

Parallel & Converging Indifference Curves

Map of Indifference Curves

Continuity - Converging Sequence of Points

Illustrating a simple function f(x) = x² from R1 to R1

Indifference Curves & Utility Functions - 3D Object in 2D Space

Longitude and Latitude - 3D Object in 2D Space: "Mount Nechyba" Graphed in 2 Dimensions

Longitude, Latitude and Elevation: Deriving 2-Dimensional Level Curves from a 3-Dimensional Picture of "Mount Nechyba"

Re-Scaling Graph 4.8ab: Interpreting Values Assigned to Indifference Curves by Utility Functions - 3D and 2D

A Single Variable "Slice" of a Multi-Variable Function