What is an Opportunity Set?
An opportunity set is a group of potential options.
In economics, the budget constraint model demonstrates the opportunity set, which includes the possible combinations of goods that can be purchased within the consumer’s budget.
- Budget Constraint
- Radner Equilibrium
- Opportunity Cost
- Opportunity Set
- Marginal Analysis
- Utility
- Self Interest
- Cost-Benefit Analysis
- Enlightened Self-Interest
- Fisher’s Separation Theorem
- Ratchet Effect
- Total Utility (Economics)
- Efficiency Principle
- Expected Utility
- Subjective Theory of Value
- Positional Goods
- Utilitarianism
- Indifference Curve
- Time Preference Theory of Interest
- Incentives
- Marginal Benefit
- Marginal utility
- Diminishing Marginal Utility
- Sunk Costs
- Production Possibilities Frontier
- Law of Diminishing Returns
- Economic Efficiency
- Efficiency Theory
- Productive Efficiency
- Capacity Utilization Rate
- Allocative Efficiency
- Pareto Efficient
- Comparative Advantage
- Criticisms of the Economic Approach
- Behavioral Economics
- Normative Economics
- Positive Economics
- Invisible Hand
- Sunk cost