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Consumer Behaviour Cardinal And Ordinal Utility Analysis

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Card 1Introduction to Consumer Behaviour

What is consumer behaviour?

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Consumer behaviour is the process whereby individuals decide what and how much to purchase goods and services for personal consumption. It focuses on how a consumer chooses between goods when income i

Card 2Approaches to Consumer Behaviour

Name the three approaches developed to study consumer behaviour.

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Three approaches have been developed to study consumer behaviour: 1) Utility Analysis or Cardinal Utility Analysis, 2) Indifference Curve Analysis or Ordinal Utility Approach, and 3) Revealed Preferen

Card 3Meaning of Utility

What is utility?

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Utility is the measure of intensity of want of a good, that is, the desire to have a commodity. A good has utility when it satisfies a want. Utility is subjective, different from usefulness, and diffe

Card 4Cardinal Utility Analysis

What is cardinal utility?

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Cardinal utility is the utility where the satisfaction derived from consumption of a good can be expressed in numbers. It is a quantitative approach. Utility may be measured in imaginary units called

Card 5Marshall's Contribution

Why is utility analysis also called Marshallian utility analysis?

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Utility analysis is also known as Marshallian Utility Analysis of demand because Dr. Alfred Marshall gave its final shape. He stated the Law of Diminishing Marginal Utility, the Law of Equi-marginal U

Card 6Assumptions of Utility Analysis

What assumptions are used in utility analysis?

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Utility analysis assumes that the consumer is rational, utility is cardinal, utility is additive, marginal utility of money remains constant, and the Law of Diminishing Marginal Utility applies. The c

Card 7Total Utility

What is total utility and how is it calculated?

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Total utility means the total satisfaction obtained from the consumption of a certain number of units of a commodity. It is calculated by adding marginal utilities of all units consumed: TU_{x}=MU_{1}

Card 8Marginal Utility

What is marginal utility?

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Marginal utility is addition made to total utility by consuming one more unit of a commodity. Prof. Chapman defined it as "Marginal utility is addition made to total utility by consuming one more unit

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