After coming upwith this egregious fallacy, Bernoulli topped it by blithely assuming thatevery individual's marginal utility of money moves in the very same constantproportion, b.

更为糟糕的，在提出这个令人震惊的谬论后，伯努利又漫不经心地假设说，每个人的货币的边际效用也以同样的常量b变化。

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In 1738, Daniel, trying to solve a problem in probability theory and the theory of gambling by use of the calculus, stumbled on the concept of the law of diminishing marginal utility of money.

在1738年，丹尼尔试图用微积分来解决一个概率论和赌博理论里的问题，无意间却发现了货币的边际效用递减法则的概念。

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Like others, Cisco sees the potential to save a lot of money and energy use for lots of companies by implementing utility computing.

像其他公司一样，思科也看到了通过实现效用计算，来为大量公司节省金钱和能源的潜在可能性。

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Most of the money would help pay for the utility's new wind farms.

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The exact shape of the curve is subject to discussion, but the point of diminishing marginal utility is that, as you get more and more money, the increment in utility for each extra dollar diminishes.

这条曲线的确切形状还有待讨论,但是边际效用递减规律的重点在于,你得到的钱越多,每额外的一美元的增长效用会相对减小

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The idea is that for any amount of money-- if this x is the amount of money that I receive-- utility as the function of the amount of money I receive is downwardly-concave.

这种观点是对于任何数量的货币,假设我得到x数量的货币,随着货币的增加,边际效用呈,向下凹进去的曲线

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How do you feel about the purpose and utility of money?

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On the issue of accountability, I have introduced a bill to require utility companies to disclose the amount of money that cap-and-trade policies would add to individual utility bills.

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In an integration with bill provider InfoSend, people can pay their utility bills using PayNearMe. (About 10% of utility bills are paid in cash or money order, Shader says.) InfoSend will add bar codes on bill statements that people can take to 7-11 stores and use to pay in cash.

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