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THEORY: A scientifically verified, interrelated body of general principles, axioms, and assumptions that is used to explain and understand real world phenomena. Theories are the cornerstone of the scientific method. They generate the hypotheses that are verified against real world data, which is the day-to-day process of doing science. The construction and refinement of theories, accomplished through the hypothesis verification process, is also the basic goal of doing science.

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  • A method of graphing the marginal utility curve is to derive it directly from the total utility curve.
  • This method is based on an interesting and useful relation between totals and marginals that surfaces time and time again in the study of economics, what we can term the total-marginal relation.

  • The total-marginal relation is that the marginal value of a variable is equal to the slope of the curve for the corresponding total value of a variable.
  • For our immediate discussion of marginal utility, this means that marginal utility is the slope of the total utility curve.

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Household saving that does not depend on income or production (especially disposable income, national income, or even gross domestic product). That is, changes in income do not generate changes in saving. Autonomous saving is best thought of as a baseline level of saving (usually negative) that the household sector undertakes in the unlikely event that income falls to zero. It is measured by the intercept term of the saving function or the saving line. The alternative to autonomous saving is induced saving, which does depend on income.

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