MyLab Economics with Pearson eText -- Access Card -- for Economics Today: The Micro View
MyLab Economics with Pearson eText -- Access Card -- for Economics Today: The Micro View
19th Edition
ISBN: 9780134480336
Author: Roger LeRoy Miller
Publisher: PEARSON
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Chapter 20, Problem AFCT
To determine

What fact ultimately constraints the consumption of any item said to be available in unlimited amounts at a fixed price?

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An individual's wants are unlimited in number yet each individual's want is satiable. Therefore, as an individual consumes more and more units of goods, an intensity of his want for the goods goes on falling and a point is reached where the individual no longer wants any more units of the goods. That is when saturation point is reached, the marginal utility of goods becomes zero. Zero marginal utility of goods implies that the individual has all that he wants of the goods in question..

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