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Micro Chap. 5

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Category Macro-Economics
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Utility

Measures the want-satisfying power of a good or a service.

Marginal utility

Measures the.increase in total utility when an additional unit of a good is consumed.

Utilitarianism

the greatest happiness of the greatest number.

Law of diminishing marginal utility

states that as the amount of a good consumed increases, the marginal utility of that good tends to diminish.

MU1 / P1 = MU2 / P2 =…= MU per $ spent

Describes the market basket of goods that will bring the consume maximum satisfaction.

Market demand

Represents the sum of the individual demands at each price.

Income elasticity

Denotes the percentage change in quantity demanded divided by the oereentage change in income, all else held fixed.

substitutes

Given two goods, an increase in the price of one causes an in-crease in the demand for the other.