Consumer Surplus Is

question 53

Multiple Choice

Consumer surplus is

• A) the same as total utility.
• B) the marginal value that consumers place on their purchases.
• C) the same as Karl Marx's notion of surplus value.
• D) the total value that consumers place on their purchases.
• E) the sum of the extra value placed on each unit of a commodity above the market price paid for each.

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