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The marginal utility of X is the additional utility from one additional unit of X or, more formally, the derivative of utility with respect to X. The marginal utility of X may very well depend on the amounts of other goods, Y and Z, for example, that also enter a utility function.
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So we should not look at the total utility but at the "marginal" utility of the good or service. Marginal utility is defined as the increase in utility as a result of consuming one more unit of the good. In other -- algebraic -- terms,
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This illustrates a general principle that has much wider application in economics. In economics, we speak of a law or principle of diminishing marginal utility.
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Law of Diminishing Marginal Utility - Definition of Law of Diminishing Marginal Utility on Investopedia - A law of economics stating that as a person increases consumption of a product - while keeping consumption of other products constant - there is ... Investopedia explains Law of Diminishing Marginal Utility;
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This table shows that total utility will increase at a much slower rate as marginal utility diminishes with each additional bar. Notice how the first chocolate bar gives a total utility of 70 but the next three chocolate bars together increase total utility by only 18 additional units.
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The Consumer: Marginal Value, Marginal Utility, and Consumer Surplus ... We begin in the first part of the chapter by developing the concepts of marginal utility and marginal value and showing how they can be used to analyze the behavior of a consumer. The most important result of that analysis will be that the consumer...
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