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