John Is Maximizing Utility by Choosing to Spend 90 Minutes

question 76

True/False

John is maximizing utility by choosing to spend 90 minutes reading a chapter in The Theory of Moral Sentiments, which will give him 450 units of utility, instead of spending 20 minutes reading a chapter of Atlas Shrugged, which will give him 200 units of utility. (Assume marginal utility decreases slowly.)

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