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Risk and Uncertainty in Welfare Economics
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Which of the following is a key assumption of expected utility theory?
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Individuals have diminishing marginal utility of income.
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Expected utility theory assumes that individuals have diminishing marginal utility of income, meaning that the additional satisfaction they derive from each additional unit of income decreases as their income increases.