Discover the Diamond-Water Paradox—why diamonds cost more than water. Learn about subjective value and marginal utility in economic valuation.

Understand the key differences between marginal utility and marginal benefit—how they affect pricing, consumer behavior, and ...

A GREAT deal of economic theory turns on how people cope with risk—one of the least escapable facts of economic life. The model that most economists rely on when they need to take account of risk in ...

Giornale degli Economisti e Annali di Economia, Nuova Serie, Anno 42, No. 11/12 (Novembre-Dicembre 1983), pp. 749-768 (20 pages) The striking contemporaneous appearance of the theory of value based on ...

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 ...

Mit der Begründung der ordinalen Nutzentheorie durch Pareto war der Begriff des Grenznutzens nicht mehr quantitativ interpretierbar. Lediglich die Grenzrate der Substitution erwies sich den jetzt ...