If the marginal rate of substitution is not diminishing, it must mean that tastes violate convexity (assuming that our other assumptions about tastes hold).

Answer the following statement true (T) or false (F)


True

Rationale: The diminishing MRS feature of indifference maps is identical to the convexity assumption when our other assumptions about tastes hold.

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