Learn the key differences between marginal utility and marginal value, how they impact decision-making, and why understanding both is crucial for economic analysis.

Explore marginal propensity to import (MPM) and learn how changes in disposable income affect import levels. Discover its role in global trade and economic theory.

In the final part of this series, we estimate the number of committed assets in the Gulf of Mexico that are expected to be marginal over a 60-year horizon. Our sample set includes all producing ...

A rational business's main goal is always to maximize profits. As complicated as business processes can be, the end goal always remains reaching the maximum profit. There are many ways a company has ...

November 2006 In the second installment of a two-part article, Dr. Ahmed A. El-Ashker, professor of finance at the Prince of Songkla University, Thailand, investigates some aspects of Islamic economic ...

There's more than a fleeting echo, in the cadences of the opening paragraph of Jeremy Rifkin's new book, "The Zero Marginal Cost Society", of Marx and Engels's "Communist Manifesto". But in this case ...

Business owners and managers make a number of decisions throughout the day, week or month. Many of these decisions are "either-or," but even more of them often are about "how much." Margin analysis, ...