marginal utility

Japanese: marginal utility（英語表記）marginalutility

…Born in Leeds, Yorkshire, he graduated from University College, London, and served as a prominent Unitarian minister in London from 1874 to 1898. He became interested in economics through ethics and sociology, and started from WS Jevons' theory of final utility, renaming it "marginal utility" and developing the theory of marginalism in "The Alphabet of Economics" (1888). Later, in "An Essay on the Integration of the Laws of Distribution" (1894), he applied the marginal principle to the determination of prices of production factors, forming the theory of marginal productivity. …

From Marginal Utility Theory

…Consider the utility gained from consuming or possessing various goods, and the increase in utility that is possible by consuming or possessing just one more unit of a good is called marginal utility. Let us consider how to spend a certain amount of income on the purchase of various goods. …

*Some of the terminology that refers to "marginal utility" is listed below.

Source | Heibonsha World Encyclopedia 2nd Edition | Information

Japanese:

…ヨークシャーのリーズに生まれ，ロンドンのユニバーシティ･カレッジを卒業後，1874‐98年，ロンドンでユニテリアン派の有力牧師として活躍した。倫理学，社会学から経済学に関心をもつようになったが，W.S.ジェボンズの最終効用理論から出発して，それを〈限界効用marginal utility〉と呼びかえ，限界主義理論を展開したのが《経済学のアルファベット》(1888)である。のち《分配法則の統合に関する一試論》(1894)において，限界原理を生産要因の価格決定に応用し限界生産力理論(限界生産力説)を構成した。…