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  2. Marginalism - Wikipedia

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    Marginalism is a theory of economics that attempts to explain the discrepancy in the value of goods and services by reference to their secondary, or marginal, utility. It states that the reason why the price of diamonds is higher than that of water, for example, owes to the greater additional satisfaction of the diamonds over the water.

  3. Principle of marginality - Wikipedia

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    In statistics, the principle of marginality, sometimes called hierarchical principle, is the fact that the average (or main) effects of variables in an analysis are marginal to their interaction effect—that is, the main effect of one explanatory variable captures the effect of that variable averaged over all values of a second explanatory variable whose value influences the first variable's ...

  4. Inframarginal analysis - Wikipedia

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    The analysis method based on marginal utility and marginal productivity in modern mainstream economics textbooks is marginal analysis. However, Yang Xiaokai believes that marginal analysis cannot solve the problem of division of labor, so he introduced the inframarginal analysis. In brief, inframarginal analysis is an analytical method that ...

  5. Marginal utility - Wikipedia

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    Marginal analysis examines the additional benefits of an activity compared to additional costs sustained by that same activity. In practice, companies use marginal analysis to assist them in maximizing their potential profits and often used when making decisions about expanding or reducing production.

  6. Marginal distribution - Wikipedia

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    The marginal probability P(H = Hit) is the sum 0.572 along the H = Hit row of this joint distribution table, as this is the probability of being hit when the lights are red OR yellow OR green. Similarly, the marginal probability that P(H = Not Hit) is the sum along the H = Not Hit row.

  7. Marginal concepts - Wikipedia

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    marginal product of capital; marginal rate of transformation, the rate at which one output or result must be sacrificed in order to increase another output or result; marginal revenue product; marginal propensity to save and consume; marginal tax rate; marginal efficiency of capital; Marginalism is the use of marginal concepts to explain ...

  8. Indifference curve - Wikipedia

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    Indifference curve analysis is a purely technological model which cannot be used to model consumer behaviour. ... Indifference curves exhibit diminishing marginal ...

  9. Margin (economics) - Wikipedia

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    Within economics, margin is a concept used to describe the current level of consumption or production of a good or service. [1] Margin also encompasses various concepts within economics, denoted as marginal concepts, which are used to explain the specific change in the quantity of goods and services produced and consumed.