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Marginal Utility Analysis
- Level:
- AS, A-Level
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- AQA, Edexcel, OCR, IB, Eduqas, WJEC
Last updated 26 Jan 2019
Utility is a measure of the satisfaction that we get from purchasing and consuming a good or service
Marginal utility and the demand curve for a product
A fall in marginal utility means that the consumer is getting less extra satisfaction from each subsequent unit consumed. We can infer from this that a rational consumer will not be willing to pay as much money for later units and therefore their willingness to pay will drop. This is one reason why a conventional demand curve for a normal good has an inverse relationship between price charged and quantity demanded.
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