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### What's wrong with the "airline marginal cost pricing" argument?

One possible answer is that Mankiw's argument takes consumer demand for airline tickets as fixed and given. I would speculate that cheap last-minute tickets are a substitute good for regularly priced ...
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### What's wrong with the "airline marginal cost pricing" argument?

Do airlines actually do anything like the above? Yes, in fact now you will see on many airports specialized companies/windows that will offer last-minute flights very cheap. For example, in the past, ...
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### What's wrong with the "airline marginal cost pricing" argument?

Pricing of last minute tickets for airlines is a tricky problem. Yes, discounting fares may attract customers who would not have flown otherwise. But buying a flight is a bit more complex than buying ...
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### How is marginal benefit measured?

The reason why marginal benefit is measured in cans of soda is that this economy only has two goods: pizza and soda. So instead of using money we may as well use soda. Alternatively, in the absence of ...
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### Is it considered acceptable or unacceptable to use currency as a measure of utility?

Utility functions as ordinarily used are not a measure of well-being comparable among people, but a representation of preferences. Moreover, preferences could principally be elicited from choice ...
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### Equivalence of producer surplus areas

The profit of a firm $i$ is given by: $$\pi_i(p) = p q_i - C_i(q_i)$$ where $p$ is the price, $q$_i is the output of firm $i$ and $C_i(.)$ is the cost function which differs across firms. The first ...
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### Demand curve is same as Marginal Benefit curve?

Nuance matters: In the comments under 1muflon1's answer the quote given is The demand curve represents marginal benefit. The vertical distance at each quantity shows the mount consumers are willing ...
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### I don't know why these two method yield different solutions for marginal product of labour

I am not sure why you expect method two to work, as generally $$\frac{\partial F(K,N)}{\partial N} \neq \frac{\partial F(K,N)}{\partial K}\frac{\partial K}{\partial N}.$$ These are partial ...
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### Is addiction a case of increasing marginal utility?

To expand on @1muflon1's answer. The theory of rational addiction assumes that the utility of a consumer at time instance $t$ depends both on current consumption of the addicitve good, say $c_t$, and ...
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### Relationship between capital and decreasing marginal prodcutivity

The claim is not that capital decreases marginal productivity, but that the marginal productivity of capital is decreasing. (See "diminishing returns.") That is, the first "unit" ...
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### Mathematical explanation of transformations of Marginal Revenue

You have two questions. The first one is (I broke lines in the quotes where I tought this improved legibility): MR = d(Total revenue)/dQuantity = d (Price * Quantity)/dQuanitity This is the same as ...
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### Understanding the law of supply

As you noted correctly, it has something to do with the costs. An important point here is a cost of producing an additional unit, and not average cost. Let me give the following example. Suppose ...
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### When can I say that a utility function has constant marginal utility?

Marginal utility tells you how the utility changes as you alter x. That is the first derivative, which here is a function of x. This means it is increasing. The rate of that increase is constant as ...
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### fixed an marginal cost calculation issue

The marginal cost is 3. Marginal costs do not depend on the fixed cost, and when your variable costs are constant, then the marginal cost and the variable cost are the same. Note that your total cost ...
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### Find Indifference curve/s and Marginal Rate/s of Substitution given only one point

In general, you are right to be mystified: specifying a point (consumption bundle) isn't enough to compute MRS and indifference curves. However, in this problem, I would suggest you take the first ...
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### Marginal Profit Derivation

The marginal profit you calculate is correct. We can rearrange the solution of the problem you are given. This is equivalent to $$\frac{dP}{dq} = 192 -176q + 48q^2 -4q^3$$ This derivative has as ...
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### What would be the income tax rate be if it were 'flattened'?

Having worked on these issues myself for quite some time, I am not aware of any study on this for New Zealand. For a back-of-the-envelope calculation of the revenue-neutral flat tax rate, you'd need ...
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### Piketty's explanation of elasticity of substitution (from his book Capital in the 21st century)

The following is from Thomas Piketty and Gabriel Zucman (2015, From Handbook of Income Distribution, Volume 2, Chapter 15, Part 15.5.3 which is hard to link to directly but get it here): Take a CES ...
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### Returns to Scale Microeconomics

Seems like the only function $f$ that fits your description $$\forall i: \frac{\partial f(\mathbf{x})}{\partial x_i} = c_i$$ is $$f(\mathbf{x}) = A + \sum x_i c_i.$$ (Frequently $f(\mathbf{0}) = 0$...
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Your marginal revenue is not calculated correctly. Marginal revenue $(MR)$ is the derivate of total revenue which is equal price times quantity $TR=PQ$. In your case $TR$ should be: TR=(k+aQ)Q \...