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Diminishing marginal utility

Diminishing marginal utility means that, beyond some point, each additional unit of a good tends to provide less additional satisfaction than the previous unit, other things being equal.

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  • 1.2Classical Microeconomics and Marginal Analysis (19th Century)

Taught in Economic Methodology and the Evolution of Economic Thought

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