marginal value
collocation in Englishmeaningsofmarginalandvalue
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marginal
adjective
uk/ˈmɑː.dʒɪ.nəl/us/ˈmɑːr.dʒɪ.nəl/
very small in amount ...
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value
noun
uk/ˈvæl.juː/us/ˈvæl.juː/
the amount of money that can be received ...
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(Definition ofmarginalandvaluefrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)
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For those households with electronic filter systems, themarginalvalueof public water treatment would be low.
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The elementary truth is obscured by their talk of a decreasingmarginalvalueof an extra unit of pleasure.
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However, themarginalvalueof a life year is more important for policy purposes.
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The wage reflects themarginalvalueproduct of labour in lowland production and is negatively impacted by sedimentation.
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This latter fact reduces potential efficiency gains for the system by preventing the equalization ofmarginalvalueproducts between the regions.
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A reasonable argument could be made that the disvalue of disease or death differs less between persons than themarginalvalueof money.
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Perhaps the more likely explanation is an accelerating decline in themarginalvalueof additional survival time (independent of pure time preference).
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The shadow price of the water constraint constitutes themarginalvalueof irrigation water.
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That is, it is possible for a water market to lead to amarginalvalueproduct of water that is lower than the pre-water-market value.
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This work will be of interest and help to students in medicine, cognitive science, neurophysiology, etc, but ofmarginalvalueto robotics experts.
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Namely, the marginal utility of consumption must be equal to themarginalvalue(implicit price) of physical capital.
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She suggests that such judgements are partly explained by what she calls the "diminishingmarginalvalue" of further life.
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Charging for irrigation water equal to themarginalvaluewill still lead to the suboptimal use of resources.
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From (7), themarginalvalueproduct of agricultural labour should equal the prevailing (exogenous) wage.
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Relative to the reciprocal crosses the test could not be carried out due to themarginalvaluebeing too high.
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Compared to the opportunity costs of water, themarginalvalueof water was less than half, indicating the case of drought.
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However, technology does not itself raise themarginalvalueof body mass in food procurement (at least not by too much).
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