Social Value: A Study in Economic Theory, Critical and Constructive

by Benjamin M. Anderson

VALUE AND MARGINAL UTILITY

Individualistic method of Jevons and the Austrians—Such a method, applied to value problem in concrete social life, yields, not quantities of value, but rather, particular ratios between such quantities—Value cannot be identified with marginal utility of a good to a marginal individual, even though we assume the commensurability and homogeneity of human emotions—Clark's Law [28]