Marshallian demand

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Marshallian demand is the consumer demand function that expresses the quantity of a good chosen as a function of prices and income, derived from utility maximization under a budget constraint.

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Predicate Object
instanceOf consumer theory concept
demand function
microeconomic concept
aggregatedTo market demand function
alsoKnownAs ordinary demand
uncompensated demand
appliesTo individual consumer
argument income w
price vector p
assumes complete preferences
locally non-satiated preferences
transitive preferences
utility maximization behavior
canBe continuous
differentiable
captures income effects
substitution effects
contrastsWith Hicksian (compensated) demand NERFINISHED
dependsOn nominal income
relative prices
derivedFrom utility maximization
describes quantity of a good demanded
domain microeconomics
expressedAs solution to max u(x) s.t. p·x ≤ w
hasInput consumer income
consumer preferences
prices of goods
historicalContext developed in neoclassical economics
mathematicalForm x_i(p,w)
mayViolate law of demand in presence of Giffen goods
namedAfter Alfred Marshall NERFINISHED
output optimal consumption bundle
property Walras law compliance
adding-up of expenditures equals income
homogeneous of degree zero in prices and income
relatedConcept Hicksian demand NERFINISHED
Slutsky equation NERFINISHED
expenditure function
indirect utility function
solutionOf consumer utility maximization problem
subfieldOf consumer theory
subjectTo budget constraint
usedFor comparative statics analysis
deriving individual demand curves
deriving market demand
policy evaluation
tax incidence analysis
welfare analysis

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Hicksian demand relatedTo Marshallian demand