Cards (9)

  • What is utility?:
    • Utility is the satisfaction gained from consuming a good or service
  • What is utility?
    • Utility is the satisfaction gained from consuming a good or service
  • What is marginal utility?:
    • Marginal utility is the additional satisfaction gained from consuming one extra unit of a good
  • What is marginal utility?
    • Marginal utility is the additional satisfaction gained from consuming one extra unit of a good
  • Hypothesis of diminishing marginal utility:
    • As a person increases consumption of a good while keeping consumption of other products constant there is a decline in the marginal utility derived from consuming each additional unit of a good
  • hypothesis of diminishing marginal utility supports a downward sloping demand curve
  • What is does the hypothesis marginal utility support?
    downward sloping demand curve
  • When marginal utility is zero, total utility is maximised. This is the point of satiation
  • What happens when marginal utility is zero?
    total utility is maximised