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CHAPTER III. Value and Marginal Utility

Social Value: a Study in Economic Theory, Critical and Constructive · Benjamin M. Anderson — chapter 2 of 40 · ~59 words · public domain

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VALUE AND MARGINAL UTILITY

Individualistic method of Jevons and the Austrians--Such a method, applied to value problem in concrete social life, yields, not quantities of value, but rather, particular ratios between such quantities--Value cannot be identified with marginal utility of a good to a marginal individual, even though we assume the commensurability and homogeneity of human emotions--Clark's Law 28

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