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Aug 22, 2023 · A marginal benefit is a maximum amount a consumer is willing to pay for an additional good or service. It is also the additional satisfaction or utility that a consumer receives when the...
- Will Kenton
- 1 min
To get a better intuition about how much a consumer values a good in a market, we think of demand as a marginal benefit curve. In this video we look at the demand curve from a marginal benefit framework. Created by Sal Khan.
- 6 min
- Sal Khan
The marginal benefit curve tells us what happens when we pass from one point to another on the total benefit curve, so we have plotted marginal benefits at the midpoints of the hourly intervals in Panel (c).
Marginal benefit is the maximum amount that a customer is willing to pay for an additional unit of good or service. When the utilization of a unit decreases, the marginal benefit for a customer decreases.
Allocative efficiency is achieved when I reach the point where I'm fine with both grades, or (to put it another way) when I think I'm giving up too much for one grade over the other, and vice versa. This can be expressed in the form where Marginal Cost= Marginal Benefit.
- 14 min
- Sal Khan
If all costs and benefits are captured by the supply and demand curves, then the market outcome is a quantity where marginal social costs equals marginal social benefit. But what if they don't? In this video, see how markets might produce an inefficient quantity.
- 7 min