Consumption with Negative Side Effects
This post is a little more in the weeds of microeconomic theory. I do not apologize.
So a standard UMP or utility maximization problem involves an economic agent finding the optimal bundle of goods to consume given a utility function and a budget constraint. These utility functions can take any form, although economists usually impose some constraints on…
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