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Austrian economists differ with the economic mainstream in many ways, but the break on utility theory is especially critical ...

Marginal utility helps set product pricing; high initial satisfaction decreases with more units. Some stores use bulk pricing when consumers value additional items less. Progressive taxes assume each ...

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William Baumol writes in "Economics: Principles and Policy" that the total monetary utility of a collection of goods to a consumer is equal to the largest amount of money the consumer will pay in ...

The law of marginal utility states that customer satisfaction decreases with each unit purchased. So, the more your customers purchase, the less satisfaction they get from each additional purchase. If ...

From a practical standpoint, the august professors were talking about the value of that last dollar, the one at the top of a potentially very high stack that you might possess. And the function for ...

The present work takes place in the framework of a non-expected utility model under risk: the RDEU theory (Rank Dependent Expected Utility, first initiated by Quiggin under the denomination of ...

This paper specifies how the importance or marginal utility of information can change as a function of both its amount and evaluation. Three simple mathematical models are presented: each describes a ...

Looking on from Mars or from Omaha, it would seem that a vital commodity like water would be infinitely more valuable than a non-essential commodity like diamonds. The classical labor theory of value ...