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Bentham practiced on all his own writings, making what he called "marginal contents"; a short abstract of every paragraph, to enable the writer more easily to judge of, and improve, the order of the ideas, and the general character of the exposition.
For there may be many such marginal sites, some of which will fetch low rents, and others very high rents indeed; the same site being often of great potential utility for a large variety of occupations.
The desirable relation of price to marginal cost is but imperfectly attained.
That the utility of the marginal pound of sugar would seem to the housewife just worth the price that she must pay for it; in other words, that it would be roughly equal to the utility she could obtain by spending the money in other ways.
The prices might not have changed; the respective marginal utilities to her of the different things would again be proportionate to their prices, but they would constitute a smaller satisfaction than before.
The more money a man has the less is the marginal utility which it yields him; and, where the marginal utility of money to a man is small, so also will be the real marginal utility he derives in each direction of his expenditure.
Meanwhile, we may express the conclusions of the present chapter by the statement that the price of a commodity tends to equal its marginal utility, as measured in terms of money, i.e. relatively to the marginal utility of money to its purchaser.
For though a great coal trust could in a sense afford to sell at a price lower than the marginal cost, setting its losses on the poorer against its gains on the better pits, is it likely it would do so?
This we express, when we consider a business in its aspect as a consumer, by saying that its consumption of anything will not be carried beyond the point at which the marginal utility exceeds the price it will have to pay.
Such an argument is a gross caricature of the marginal conception.
This extra cost we can regard as constituting the marginal cost of mutton.
It is thus very difficult to assign to sewing cotton a specific marginal utility.
The rent of the marginal land will be nil, because it will not pay to cultivate it, if any appreciable rent is charged.
There is a confusion in this paragraph, which asks more than a marginal note to disentangle.
The marginal notes will have called attention to his eccentricities.
Hamilton sets forth as one reason for invalidating the good faith of its marginal readings.
His commando was a little disposed to assume a marginal position, and it had to be reassured.
His pupils liked the short morals best, as it left them more room for marginal illustrations, and in this instance they required all the space they could get to exhibit the rapidity of the hero's departure.
The word "pandemonium," in the marginal notes of Book i.
The marginal webs of the toes are much more dilated.
Posterior wings encircled by a marginal band of the same greenish color.
Where there are more than two rows of cells, the marginal cells differ in conformation from the central.
The man did so, and jotted down a few marginal notes.
The marginal index should enable you to find quickly any point regarding which you want to refresh your recollection.
The titles of old ballads were never printed red; but perhaps rubric may stand for marginal explanation.
The marginal reading in our family Bibles, as well as in the revised version, is "participation in."
The enrollment cannot be greatly increased so long as this type of education is handled as one of the marginal activities of the school system, manned by tired teachers and directed by tired principals.
The marginal edges are apparently uncut.
There are no marginal folds like those of the European species.
This varies in having the figures of birds with wings spread and of elks on the inner surface below the marginal line.
With scalloped marginal and middle bands.
Decorated on the inner surface only, with the usual scrolls; marginal band simply a narrow line or entirely wanting.
In 1543 all marginal notes were obliterated and the lower classes forbidden to read the Bible at all.
A copy of the first Latin edition was once owned by Fernando Columbus, and has marginal marks ascribed to his father.
I lost it in a marginal option in an undeveloped oil company.
Nearly all the marginal notes in the First and Third Books are omitted; and others having been incorporated with the text, led to the supposition that Knox himself had revised the History at a later period of life.
In so far as the basis of social utility is the social labor necessary for its production, the labor-value theory of Marx may be said, I think, to include the marginal utility law, as one of the forms in which it operates.
They are of all kinds of ware, widely different in shape, the number of marginal perforations varying greatly.
The translation was in itself bristling with errors, and the marginal notes were stupidly offensive.
Though we are now more particularly considering the renderings, I include here the marginal readings, as the relation of the margins to the Version could hardly be fully specified without taking into consideration the margin in its entirety.
I thought the marginal references overdone.
Several objects may be made to balance without rearrangement though the marginal proportions of the picture are altered.
The Arabic marginal notes are apparently partly pious ejaculations, partly notes for the aid of Arabic students.
A monopoly price, as we have seen, exactly measures the marginal utility of the supply, as indicated by the quantity of money which the purchaser of the last increment of supply is just willing to pay for it.
Since the marginal utility of a number of increments of supply will not be the same in the case of any two commodities, it is evident that the determination of monopoly prices is a very delicate operation.
Profusely illustrated and with marginal decorations by the author.
These tags have marginal numbers or divisions which are canceled by a punch as pickers deliver the grapes.
Captions, marginal figures and initials in red.
The marginal man standardizes the wage.
The slightly concave upper surface is depressed about half an inch below the upright marginal band.
The author's aim has been to produce such a condensation of the original work as may recall its contents to those who have read it, and may serve those who are now reading it in the place of a full body of marginal notes.
In a like manner a coat of the next grade, which is a more fashionable garment, sells for seventy-five dollars because it has a fourth utility which costs another sum of thirty-five dollars and, to the marginal buyers, is worth that amount.
A given amount of labor and capital creates much more wealth when working with a machine of the highest class than it would if distributed in marginal positions; and this is equivalent to saying that such an instrument is itself highly productive.
A needed part of the supply of woolen cloth is woven on marginal looms.
The price of wheat raised on good land is the same as that of wheat raised on the marginal zone, and it affords a surplus above wages and interest paid by farmers for labor and capital used in the tilling of the good land.
It is brought into new uses, is employed more in its present marginal uses, and is required in greater quantity because its products are substituted for other things and are also required in greater amounts independently of these substitutions.
A particular employment which is strongly organized and which makes the utmost use of its organization is often able to carry the pay of its employees to a level that is distinctly above that set by the productive power of marginal social labor.
A rule of pay, governed by marginal productivity, results from the action spontaneously taken by a myriad of employers, who enlarge their working forces when they find that they gain thereby, and reduce them when they lose.
The marginal product of labor plus an amount for personal superiority plus an amount for good organization would be the standard to which wages in favored employments would conform; and it is as nearly normal as any practicable standard would be.
If marginal social capital, consisting of commodity and measured in some way in units of kind, has the power to add to itself in a year one unit for every twenty, lenders will claim about that amount, and borrowers will pay it.
These marginal or frontier settlers (squatters, as they were called) were beyond the pale of constitutional government.
These marginal records are arranged in clockwise order beginning with the northernmost locality.
The marginal localities that are represented by symbols on the corresponding distribution map are in Roman type.
Rainfall is adequate in all regions and, in the lower Danube River area where it might be considered the most nearly marginal, marshes and poorly drained terrain are more of a problem than is lack of rainfall.
The specimens provide a northern marginal record of occurrence for that subspecies.
Besides the two classes of fissures mentioned we often find others, which are neither marginal nor transverse.
Prologues were added to all books except the Acts and the Apocalypse, and new marginal glosses were introduced.
The value of money comes from the value of the standard of value, and that value may, so far as the logic of the situation is concerned, be as well explained by marginal utility as the value of anything else.
The marginal utility of money, then, is not the whole of the marginal utility of the good for which it is exchanged, but rather is the differential part of that utility which is created by means of the use of money in exchange.
No writer who has presented the utility theory in this form has tried to apply it to the value of money, and even if it could be so applied, it would not give a causal explanation of the value of money in terms of marginal utility.
Moreover, the fact that money, when made of a metal used in the arts, lessens the amount available for use in the arts, raises the marginal value of that metal there, and consequently raises its value in monetary form as well.
Given the shape of the curve, and given the number of bushels of wheat, the marginal value of the wheat is given.
For the explanation of the values of consumption goods, then, we need both the socially determined marginal utilities of individuals, and the socially determined weight which these individuals have in our economic system.
I took the thing up and found the open pages covered with marginal notes in English, although the original was plainly in Sanskrit, an ancient language I had seen before, but was wholly unable to read.
There were marginal notes in a youthful hand, presumably Carl's writing, and passages underscored.
The story of Esther is prior in time to that of Ezra and Nehemiah; as you will see by the marginal dates: however, as it happened during the seventy years captivity, and is a kind of episode, it may be read in its own place.
The one is called Beauty (marginal reading, graciousness).
And why the correlative marginal note of our Revisionists?
The method of such a performance, whether by marginal Notes or in some other way, we forbear to determine.
Both in the marginal abstract and in the notes I have chiefly aimed at removing minor difficulties by explaining sentences of which the construction is peculiar, and words which are disguised by the spelling.
Whether the arrangement of these marginal inscriptions is a special one for each value, or whether each style described exists in all values there does not seem to be material enough at hand to determine.
Instinctively he picked them up one by one, and most of them were affectionately marked by marginal notes of criticism, approval, or reference; and all showing the eager, ardent mind of one who loved books.
This tribute of gratitude generally occupies a splendid dedication, or the second paragraph in the author's preface, and we are sometimes reminded in a marginal note of his particular respect for the Doctor.
You may lessen this annoyance by turning over all the leaves before you begin reading, and erasing all the marginal remarks with India rubber; and this will also be an act of kindness to the next reader after yourself.
If in its place there were some plastic substance which would yield to pressure, the weight of the ice would cause the marginal parts to extend themselves in all directions by a sort of flowing motion.
It follows that if the edge of the ice remained constant in position for any considerable period of time, large quantities of drift would have accumulated under its marginal portion, giving rise to a belt of relatively thick drift.
From this point eastward for about three miles the marginal ridge is clearly defined, the slopes about equal on either side, and the crest as nearly even as the topography of the underlying surface permits.
Marginal lakes were obliterated by having their basins filled with the advancing ice, which displaced the water.
Marginal localities for each subspecies are listed in a paragraph at the end of each account.
There is a good index of thirty-two pages, and a marginal synopsis.
I am glad that my marginal notes to your "Faust" overture have not displeased you.
The northernmost marginal locality is listed first, and the rest follow in clockwise order.
Marginal records which cannot be shown on the maps because of undue crowding are listed in Italic type.
This truly magnificent volume, superior to all the preceding by the same printer in beauty of type and marginal decoration, differs from them in having stanzas at the bottom of each page of the Dance, but which apply to the figure at the top only.
The fact that unmarked adults were caught almost entirely in marginal traps is additional evidence.
The numerous marginal titles form a complete epitome of the work; and there is that invaluable adjunct, a good index.
All dorsal views; note resemblance of two species in having longitudinal ridging and marginal ridge of carapace.
A high standard of living and all the social institutions and customs that aid in keeping the population from too rapid increase, are factors in determining ultimately the marginal productivity of labor and, hence, the height of wages.
The producer in such a case regulates his action as if the market price were fixed beyond his control, and he uses his productive agents fully up to the point where costs equal price on the marginal unit of product.
It is fallacious also in that it ignores the marginal principle in the problem of profits.