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Diminishing the Marginal Utility of Income

The additional dollar of income would be most probable to mean more to a usual poor individual than to a rich one if: (i) Efforts to raise income are proportional to the value of additional dollar earned. (ii) Each and every individual had similar total utilities from each and every possible income. (iii) Everyone had similar resources and equivalent opportunities to sell them. (iv) No ‘dead weight’ losses were acquired in transferring the funds from wealthy to the poor.

Choose the right answer from the above options.

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