New scholarly work is appearing regularly in the Quarterly Journal of Austrian Economics. Here are some articles from the ...

The author blends historical narrative with a topical approach and discusses such aspects of the theory as measurement, total value, and imputation. Originally published in 1965. The Princeton Legacy ...

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 ...

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 ...

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Giornale degli Economisti e Annali di Economia, Nuova Serie, Anno 42, No. 11/12 (Novembre-Dicembre 1983), pp. 749-768 (20 pages) The striking contemporaneous appearance of the theory of value based on ...

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 ...

A GREAT deal of economic theory turns on how people cope with risk—one of the least escapable facts of economic life. The model that most economists rely on when they need to take account of risk in ...

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