Isovalue lines

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In microeconomics, in a standard trade model with two products, an isovalue line is the vector of combinations for which the market value of total production is constant.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref><ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref> The formula for isovalue line V is:

<math>V=QxPx+QyPy</math>

in which:

Q is quantity

P is price

x and y are products.

For example: Assume an economy that only produces bread and wine and in which relative prices are fixed, say one bottle of wine equals the price of three breads. The isovalue line V (in a graph with bread as x and wine as y) slopes less than 45° downward. The exact slope is derived from the wine/bread price relation, in this case -1/3.

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