Learn how utility functions derive demand functions and their role in maximizing consumer satisfaction and economic decision making.

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

William Baumol writes in "Economics: Principles and Policy" that the total monetary utility of a collection of goods to a consumer is equal to the largest amount of money the consumer will pay in ...

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 ...

The law of marginal utility states that customer satisfaction decreases with each unit purchased. So, the more your customers purchase, the less satisfaction they get from each additional purchase. If ...

Mathematics of Operations Research, Vol. 41, No. 1 (February 2016), pp. 146-173 (28 pages) This paper investigates the problem of maximizing expected terminal utility in a (generically incomplete) ...