Volume 1, No. 3, December 2002

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Duality and the Geometry of the Income and Substitution Effects
Michael J. Panik
Faculty of Economics, University of Hartford, U.S.A.
Abstract
The geometry of the Hicks-Slutsky income and substitution effect is framed in terms of the consumer’s expenditure function and expenditure equation and thus can be studied with-out resorting to the indifference map of a direct utility function.
Key words: duality; income/substitution effect; expenditure function
JEL classification: D1; D6

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