Showing posts with label utility. Show all posts
Showing posts with label utility. Show all posts

Monday, February 3, 2014

Why We Trade: Some Fundamental Economic Principles

How to Slice a Pie

Welcome to economics boot camp.  There are a few key ideas that I'd like to take time to explain, because they're absolutely crucial to building up the models I'll be writing about here. Even more important than the math, though, is getting the intuition behind these concepts. If you understand the rest of this post, you should have a solid grasp on how I am building the models for my simulation, and why they work the way they do.