Expenditure function
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In microeconomics, the expenditure function describes the minimum amount of money an individual needs to achieve some level of utility, given a utility function and prices.
Formally, if there is a utility function that describes preferences over L commodities, the expenditure function
says what amount of money is needed to achieve a utility if prices are set by . This function is defined by
where
is the set of all bundles that give utility at least as good as .
See also
References
- Andreu Mas-Colell, Michael D. Whinston and Jerry R. Green Microeconomic Theory, 2007, ISBN 0-19-510268-1, pp. 59-60, The Expenditure Function
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