https://gdpark.blog/tags/optimization/Recent content in Optimization on gdpark.blogHugoenSat, 07 Jan 2017 00:00:00 +0000https://gdpark.blog/posts/microeconomics-12-utility-maximization/Fri, 15 Jul 2016 00:00:00 +0000https://gdpark.blog/posts/microeconomics-12-utility-maximization/Mr. Nodap’s got 10,000 won and a choice between booze and smokes — here’s how utility curves and the budget line team up to nail the one combo that maxes him out.https://gdpark.blog/posts/microeconomics-37-long-run-cost-minimization-with-cobb-douglas/Wed, 20 Jul 2016 00:00:00 +0000https://gdpark.blog/posts/microeconomics-37-long-run-cost-minimization-with-cobb-douglas/We pin down TC, MC, and AC for a Cobb-Douglas production function and find they all collapse to the same constant α — constant returns to scale is why.https://gdpark.blog/posts/microeconomics-48-chapter-6-practice-problems/Sat, 07 Jan 2017 00:00:00 +0000https://gdpark.blog/posts/microeconomics-48-chapter-6-practice-problems/Working through Chapter 6 problems on production functions — filling tables, sketching graphs, and hunting down where average product, marginal product, and total product each hit their max.