Microeconomic Analysis¶
Varian, H. R. (1992). Microeconomic Analysis. W. W. Norton.
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Primes¶
- Comparative Statics
- Microeconomic theory. The canonical home: tax incidence (raise a tax and ask who bears the new equilibrium burden), the response of consumer demand to a price change, of firm output to a wage change, of equilibrium wages to a labour-supply shift.
This sourceStandard graduate text deriving comparative-statics results including tax incidence as a function of relative supply and demand elasticities. (
- Microeconomic theory. The canonical home: tax incidence (raise a tax and ask who bears the new equilibrium burden), the response of consumer demand to a price change, of firm output to a wage change, of equilibrium wages to a labour-supply shift.
- Concentration
- If every return function \(v_i\) is concave (diminishing returns everywhere), the optimum spreads the resource — equalizing marginal returns across points by allocating to balance \(v_i'(r_i)\) — and concentration buys nothing
This sourceDevelops the equimarginal principle: with concave (diminishing-returns) value functions the optimal allocation equalizes marginal returns across uses and spreads the resource, whereas non-concavity is required for a concentrated (corner) optimum.
- If every return function \(v_i\) is concave (diminishing returns everywhere), the optimum spreads the resource — equalizing marginal returns across points by allocating to balance \(v_i'(r_i)\) — and concentration buys nothing
- Culminating Point
- The transferable core is a catalogue of interventions that apply with little adaptation across military, athletic, financial, programmatic, and ecological substrates. Stop ahead of the visible peak: internalise that the culminating point looks identical to ongoing success, so the discipline is to stop while still apparently winning. Consolidate the gains: convert advance into defensible position before momentum carries past the peak. Pre-arrange the withdrawal: plan the fallback before it is needed, because under momentum it becomes psychologically unavailable. Push the culminating point outward: lengthen the runway by reducing accumulator cost — shorter supply lines, fresher reserves, simpler control structures — rather than racing toward the peak. Diversify the advance: replace one large advance approaching its culminating point with several smaller advances each below their own peaks.
This sourceStandard graduate reference for the calculus of optimization: the marginal yield of advance is the derivative V'(x); the interior optimum satisfies the first-order condition V'(x*)=0 with net marginal yield V'=g'−c'; the second-order/sign distinction separates a concave-but-increasing function (diminishing returns) from a marginal that changes sign at a maximum (culmination); and comparative statics gives that lowering the marginal-cost curve shifts the optimum outward.
- The transferable core is a catalogue of interventions that apply with little adaptation across military, athletic, financial, programmatic, and ecological substrates. Stop ahead of the visible peak: internalise that the culminating point looks identical to ongoing success, so the discipline is to stop while still apparently winning. Consolidate the gains: convert advance into defensible position before momentum carries past the peak. Pre-arrange the withdrawal: plan the fallback before it is needed, because under momentum it becomes psychologically unavailable. Push the culminating point outward: lengthen the runway by reducing accumulator cost — shorter supply lines, fresher reserves, simpler control structures — rather than racing toward the peak. Diversify the advance: replace one large advance approaching its culminating point with several smaller advances each below their own peaks.
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Mechanisms¶
- Marginal Substitution Estimator
- A marginal rate of substitution is local by construction — valid in the neighborhood of the choices it was fit to — and treating it as a global constant is the recurring error.
This sourceDefines the marginal rate of substitution as the local slope of an indifference curve at a particular bundle.
- A marginal rate of substitution is local by construction — valid in the neighborhood of the choices it was fit to — and treating it as a global constant is the recurring error.
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