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To: ahhaha who wrote (82804)3/20/2001 1:43:23 PM
From: Don Lloyd  Read Replies (2) | Respond to of 436258
 
ahhaha -

...This doesn't explicate some imagined "law of diminishing utility": ...

From Capitalism, by George Reisman, page 49 -

"4. The Law of Diminishing Marginal Utility and the Limitless Need for Wealth

The principle that man's desire for wealth is limitless is fully consistent with the law of diminishing marginal utility, one of the most important and well-known principles of economics. The law of diminishing marginal utility states that the utility or, equivalently, the importance or personal value, that an individual attaches to a unit of any good diminishes as the quantity of the good in his possession increases...."

Regards, Don