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  • Bending Over Backwards

    Bending Over Backwards Libertarianmonarchy.com I’m constantly bending over backwards explaining to the Keynesians how clueless they are but a particular fallacy that spans beyond Keynesianism is the backward bending supply curve of labor. Conventional economics states that in most industries as...
    Posted to Economics Questions (Forum) by Lawrence on Sun, Aug 21 2011
  • Marginal utility question re: ME&S chapter 1, figure 4. Value Scales

    I'm having trouble interpreting this chart and the explanation for ranking 3Y higher than 4X on his value scale. To me, it looks like he ranked them the same. (OMG, ghosts of the indifference curve from my college Econ.) I'm wondering if this is a misprint, since the line below has no rankings...
    Posted to Economics Questions (Forum) by Carol Cooper on Sat, Apr 23 2011
  • Re: marginal utility confusion from HA

    These are the valuations of the individual units of A, F and T, not as "classes of goods." The only place an additional A could go is below T, and since that is below F in the scale of preferences it would have to be valued less than the additional F. I understand this interpretation of value...
    Posted to Economics Questions (Forum) by Andris Birkmanis on Wed, Jun 30 2010
  • Ludwig von Mises: "Socialism"

    "But computation demands units. And there can be no unit of subjective use-value of commodities. Marginal utility provides no unit of value. the worth of two units of a given commodity is not twice as great as one--although it is necessarily greater or smaller than one. Judgments of value do not...
    Posted to Economics Questions (Forum) by ChroMattic on Thu, Feb 25 2010
  • Re: Class Question

    [quote user="Justin D"] Q from a person on a different forum. "A consumer who consumes just 2 goods, likes each as long as he does not have too much of it. Once the quantities of each exceed certain amounts, he starts to dislike each. Furthermore, the preferences of this consumer are convex...
    Posted to Economics Questions (Forum) by Think Blue on Tue, Feb 16 2010
  • Re: My Econ Teacher Doesn't Believe in Diminishing Marginal Utility?!

    [quote user="uhayile"] On wikipedia they also claim it is possible to have a second good have greater marginal utility that the first as a result of a tipping point (each additional blanket only provides warmth, until the nth one that allows one to make an escape rope, or a second ticket that...
    Posted to Economics Questions (Forum) by Think Blue on Fri, Sep 11 2009
  • Re: Fractional Reserve Banking

    [quote user="nirgrahamUK"] they are counterfeits if the say the are the deeds to gold in the vault, and there is no such gold. [quote user="GilesStratton"] in any case, if the demand for the bodies of dead innocents increases, I don't see why there can't be a consequent increase...
    Posted to Economics Questions (Forum) by Wade on Mon, Aug 3 2009
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