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Tastes of a Cocaine Addict Fred is addicted to cocaine

Tastes of a Cocaine Addict: Fred is addicted to cocaine. Suppose we want to model his tastes
over cocaine and other goods.

A: I propose to model his tastes in the following way: For any two bundles A and B of “grams of
cocaine” and “dollars of other consumption,” I will assume that Fred always prefers bundle A if
it contains more grams of cocaine than bundle B. If bundles A and B contain the same amount
of1 cocaine, then I will assume he prefers A to B if and only if A contains more other
consumption than

B.

(a) On a graph with “grams of cocaine” on the horizontal axis and “other consumption”
(denominated in dollars) on the vertical, denote one arbitrary bundle as A. Then indicate all the
bundles that are strictly preferred to A.

(b) On a separate graph, indicate all bundles that are strictly less preferred than A.

(c) Looking over your two graphs, is there any bundle that Fred would say gives him exactly as
much happiness as A? Are there any two bundles (not necessarily involving bundle A) that

Fred is indifferent between?

(d) In order for this to be a useful model for studying Fred’s behavior, how severe would Fred’s
addiction have to be?

(e) Are these tastes rational? In other words, are they complete and transitive?

(f) Do these tastes satisfy them on o tonicity property?

(g) Do they satisfy the convexity property?

(a) In this formal definition, which good is cocaine, x1 or x2?

(b) On a graph with x1 on the horizontal axis and x2 on the vertical, pick an arbitrary bundle

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 (c) On your graph, illustrate an infinite sequence of bundles (B1,B2,B3...) that converges to A
from the left. Then illustrate an infinite sequence of bundles (C1,C2,C3...) that converges to D
from the right.

(d) True or False: Every bundle in the C-sequence is strictly preferred to every bundle in the B
sequence.

(e) True or False: Bundle A is strictly preferred to bundle D.

(f) Based on the answers you just gave to the previous two True/False questions, do
lexicographic tastes satisfy the continuity property?

(g) Can these tastes be represented by a utility function?

Tastes of a Cocaine Addict Fred is addicted to cocaine

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