total utility

基本解釋

It is the rate of change in total utility per unit change in quantity and is not the utility of a marginal unit.
它是（商品）量的每單位變動帶來的總效用變動率，而不是邊際單位的效用。
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Marginal utility, defined as "the rate of change of total utility", is the utility of the last orange plus the change in utility of the preceding oranges when one more is added.
而定義為“總效用變動率”的邊際效用，是指當(dāng)增加一個橙子時，最后一個橙子的效用加上原有橙子效用變動之和。
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Using analytic hierarchy process(AHP) to ascertain the weighing of every index and to ascertain the value of every index by constructing utility function, the total utility value of highway constr.
采用層次分析法確定各評價指標(biāo)的權(quán)重，通過建立效用函數(shù)確定各評價指標(biāo)的效用值，最后通過總效用函數(shù)模型求得公路建設(shè)項目總效用值。

At some point more money held will add less to total utility than alternative uses for it—i.e. lending or investing.
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If we hold additional cash or banks hold additional cash reserves, total utility will rise, but marginal utility will likely fall.
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Just as diminishing marginal utility means more of something adds less and less to total utility (bank reserves), it also means that less of something (bologna) will raise its utility at the margin.
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