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Tangency condition
The rule for the best affordable bundle: pick the point where the budget line just touches the highest indifference curve. There the marginal rate of substitution equals the price ratio, which is the same as saying the last dollar spent on each good buys the same extra satisfaction, .
Also called: utility maximization, optimal bundle, consumer optimum
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