Examples of use of marginal utility
1. What is the marginal utility of each SR invested between large and small projects?
2. The truth, according to the talking heads, is that a win is not really a win –– not without the proper margin. (Maybe the word "win" is also losing its meaning.) Winning by a few extra points in Pennsylvania would be of marginal utility to Clinton in terms of gaining delegates, but could mean everything in terms of winning over superdelegates.
3. But the two authors suspect that behind their complex mathematical modelling lie two simple propositions: women are increasingly aware of pay discrimination in the workplace, where, better educated and experienced, they play a growing role. women "derive greater marginal utility from public goods like community safety". In other words "women are intrinsically more leftwing than men" because they prefer a larger supply of public goods and higher tax rates – for the obvious reason that they value health, education and creches and rarely get paid so much that they worry about top tax rates.