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Chapter 6Consumer Choice & Demand
These slides supplement the textbook, but should not replace reading the textbook
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In our analysis of consumer choice, what
important assumption do we make?
People would rather have more than less
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What is ademand curve?
A demand curve shows how many units will be demanded at various prices
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Why do demand curves slope downward
to the right? Because there will be an change in the quantity demanded as price changes
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With a change in price, what about other things?
When price changes we assume that everything else stays the same
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Demand Curve
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What is the difference between
wants and demand? We live in a world of unlimited wants - but the things that you demand are those things you are able and willing to buy
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What is the difference between money income
and real income? Your money income increases with a pay raise, but your real income increases only if your pay increases more than inflation
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Shift in Demand
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What can cause a shift in demand? A
change in incomes tastes number of consumers prices of related goods expectations
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What are tastes?A consumer’s preferences for different goods and services
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What is utility? Represents the level of satisfaction that a consumer derives from consumption
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What is total utility?The total satisfaction a consumer derives from consumption
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What ismarginal utility?
The change in total utility derived from a one-unit change in consumption of a good
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What is the law ofdiminishing marginal utility?
The more of a good consumed per period, the smaller the increase in total utility from consuming one more unit
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Utility Derived from Drinking Water after Jogging Four Miles
Units of Water
0
1
2
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Total Utility
0
40
60
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73
Marginal Utility
0
40
20
10
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(a) Total Utility and You Derive from Drinking Water after Jogging Four Miles
60
40
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0 1 2 3 4 5
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Glasses (8-ounce)Exhibit 2
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(b) Marginal Utility You Derive from Drinking Water after Jogging Four Miles
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Glasses (8-ounce)Exhibit 2
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Total and Marginal Utility from Food Units of
Food Consumed per Period
0123456
Total Utility of Food
0254153626872
Marginal Utility of
Food
-251612964
Marginal Utility of Food per
Dollar Expended (price = $4)
-6¼43
2¼1½1
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Total and Marginal Utility from Clothing
Units of Clothing
Consumed per Period
012345
Total Utility of Clothing
02034445054
Marginal Utility of Clothing
-20141064
Marginal Utility of Clothing per
Dollar Expended (price = $2)
-107532
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What is consumer equilibrium?The condition in which an individual consumer’s budget is completely spent and utility is maximized
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If you are hungry, how much food will you eat?
Up to the point where
MU = P
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Why?Because if MU> P, you will buy more food.
If MU< P, you will not buy the last unit of food
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When is your total utility maximized?
When your budget is completely spent and the last dollar spent on each good yields the same marginal utility
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Why does MU = P explain the
downward sloping demand curve?
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b
D
$4
$3
$2
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Demand for Pizza Generated from Marginal Utility
MU = $4
MU = $3
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What is marginal valuation?The dollar value of the marginal utility derived from consuming each additional unit of a good
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What is consumer surplus?
The difference between the maximum amount a consumer is willing to pay and what the consumer actually pays
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What is the consumer surplus of buying a pizza?
The value of the total utility you receive from consuming the pizza minus your total spending on the pizza.
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D
Consumer Surplus$7
$6
$5
$4
$3
$2
$1
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Pri
ce p
er p
izza Price of pizza equals $3
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Consumer Surplus
P
Q
D
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$6
$4
$2
2 4 6
dA
Pri
ce p
er p
izza
Pizzas per month
(a) Consumer A
$6
$4
$2
2 4 6
dB
Pri
ce p
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izza
Pizzas per month
(b) Consumer B
$6
$4
$2
2 4 6
dC
Pri
ce p
er p
izza
Pizzas per month
(c) Consumer C
D
$6
$4
$2
2 4 6
dA+dB+dC
Pri
ce p
er p
izza
Pizzas per month
(d) Market Demand
Exhibit 7
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D
Market Demand & Consumer Surplus
$7
$6
$5
$4
$3
$2
$1
1 2 3 4 5 6
Pri
ce p
er p
izza Price of pizza equals $3
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What does time have to do with MU?
People will have a greater MU the shorter the time
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What is an example of time and MU?
People will be willing to pay more to fly to California from Virginia than they would be willing to pay to take a bus to California
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