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If the price of steak rises, a consumer who had been maximizing his or her utility before will buy less steak because its "marginal utility to price ratio is now lower than for other items."
What is marginal utility?
In economics, marginal utility is the optimum quality or benefit (utility) which a buyer receives by purchasing an additional units of a product or service.
Some key features regrading the marginal utility are-
- The concept means that the utility and benefit of an extra unit of a product to a consumer is proportional to the quantity of units of such a product he currently owns.
- The given example shows marginal usefulness.
- The marginal value of one piece of bread provided to a family of seven will be considerable, because the family will be less hungry, as well as the difference between 7 and 8 is proportionally significant.
- A extra bread slice supplied to a family with 30 slices, on the other hand, has less marginal utility so because difference among 30 & 31 is proportionally lower and the family's hunger has already been satisfied.
- Thus, as a consumer of a product purchases further and more of the commodity, his marginal utility drops until he has no need for any extra units at all.
- The marginal utility then is equal to zero.
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