Marginal Utility Theory, Product Differentiation, And Revenue/Profit Maximization
“Apply the concepts of marginal utility theory, product differentiation, and revenue/profit maximization to some event in your personal, daily lives.” [1]
Marginal Utility Concept Application
From the three concepts at hand this is by far the easiest to exemplify. According to Sloman and Sutcliffe the concept of utility is directly related to that of satisfaction [2]. The satisfaction that one individual takes from consuming something is called utility.
Now when we consider the utility concept we must differentiate first between total utility and marginal utility.
Total utility is the total satisfaction that one individual gets from consuming all the units of one same thing during a specific timeframe. ie. We can analyze the utility of consumption of coke during one day to analyze the “optimum” number of cokes to be consumed or we could analyze the utility of each sip we take from a can of coke to analyze the best size of can to offer in the market for example.......
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