Concept · Foundations
Diminishing Marginal Utility
The property that successive units of a good produce smaller and smaller increases in utility; the tenth dollar gained matters less to you than the first.
Why it matters
Diminishing marginal utility is what makes concave utility functions and risk aversion rational rather than timid.
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