economic activity throughout the supply chain will suffer. One of the fundamental ways that logistics adds value is by creating utility. From an economic standpoint‚ utility represents the value or usefulness that an item or service has in fulfilling a want or need. There are four types of utility: form‚ possession‚ Time‚ and place. The later two‚ time and place utility‚ are intimately supported by logistics. And the below information clarifies how logistics industry already affected economics:
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office hours Feedback? economics204@gmail.com © Sayed Ajaz Hussain‚ Department of Economics University of Toronto‚ STG 2 Today: Consumer Theory Preference relations and “Rational” preferences Commodities and Consumption set Felicity Utility functions Positive monotonic transformation Indifference Curves Marginal Rate of Substitution Feedback? economics204@gmail.com © Sayed Ajaz Hussain‚ Department of Economics University of Toronto‚ STG 3 Some Applications of Consumer
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Andy receives zero utility unless he consumes some of at least one good. The marginal utility that he receives from the two goods is given as follows: |Qp |MUp |Qc |MUc | |1 |12 |1 |24 | |2 |10
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specific. Then‚ analyze its economic utility‚ using the questions below. a. Describe the good you chose to analyze. (1 sentence. 0.5 points) A gaming computer mouse b. Describe the form utility of this good. Is the form utility good or bad? Can you think of ways to improve it? (2-5 sentences. 1.0 points) It is good. It moves smoothly and has extra buttons on the side for better use and mobility. c. Describe the place utility of this good. Is the place utility good or bad? Can you think of
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Econ 101: Principles of Microeconomics Ch. 10: The Rational Consumer Fall 2010 Herriges (ISU) Chapter 10: The Rational Consumer Fall 2010 1 / 28 Outline 1 Utility: Getting Satisfaction 2 Budgets and Optimal Consumption 3 The Optimal Consumption Choice 4 Spending the Marginal Dollar 5 From Utility to the Demand Curve Herriges (ISU) Chapter 10: The Rational Consumer Fall 2010 2 / 28 The Rational Consumer One of the key assumptions underlying economics is the concept of the rational
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insead.edu/vanzandt Table of Contents 1 Choosing among Uncertain Prospects 1.1 Introduction to decision theory . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1.2 Lotteries and objective expected utility . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1.3 States of nature and subjective expected utility . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2 Choosing when there is new information 2.1 Representing information . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2.2 Bayes’ Theorem . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
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Lesson - 1 Business Economics- Meaning‚ Nature‚ Scope and significance Introduction and meaning : (Author : Dr. M.S. Khanchi) Business Economics‚ also called Managerial Economics‚ is the application of economic theory and methodology to business. Business involves decision-making. Decision making means the process of selecting one out of two or more alternative courses of action. The question of choice arises because the basic resources such as capital‚ land‚ labour and management are limited and
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euphemism‚ calling it breakfast. Dudley and Stephens when to trail for murder with‚ Brooks as witness. They confessed and claimed they had killed out of necessity. Arguments: 1. Did the benefits of killing the cabin boy‚ taken as a whole (considering utility of the 3 men’s family)? And consequences to society – weakening the norm against murder‚ increasing people’s tendency to take the law into their own hands. 2. Killing and eating a defenseless cabin boy is wrong for reasons that go beyond the calculation
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Outside Equity 1. Overview a. Compare behavior of manager who owns 100% vs. less than 100% i. Wholly owned he makes operating decisions which maximize his utility 1. Pecuniary returns and non-pecuniary aspects ii. Manager will expend resources to the point where the marginal utility derived from a dollar’s expenditure equals the marginal utility of additional purchasing power iii. As percent ownership falls‚ increased monitoring costs 2. Simple Formal Analysis of the Sources of Agency Costs of
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consistent between all people. 2. Why is the utility theory applied to consumer choice theory silent about comparing people’s utility levels? The utility theory is silent because utility levels cannot be compared. The utility level of any person can be multiplied by any number without personal preferences changing; therefore‚ the utilities of different people cannot be compared. One person does not have a higher or lower level than someone else. Utility levels are only capable of measuring preferences
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