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In economics and consumer theory, a Leontief utility function is a function of the form: . where: * is the number of different goods in the economy. * (for ) is the amount of good in the bundle.. * (for ) is the weight of good for the consumer. This form of utility function was first conceptualized by Wassily Leontief. == Examples == Leontief utility functions represent complementary goods. For example: * Suppose is the number of left shoes and the number of right shoes. A consumer can only use pairs of shoes. Hence, his utility is . * In a cloud computing environment, there is a large server that runs many different tasks. Suppose a certain type of a task requires 2 CPUs, 3 gigabytes of memory and 4 gigabytes of disk-space to complete. The utility of the user is equal to the number of completed tasks. Hence, it can be represented by: . 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア(Wikipedia)』 ■ウィキペディアで「Leontief utilities」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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