Gossen may refer to:
Economics
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Hermann Heinrich Gossen
Hermann Heinrich Gossen (7 September 1810 – 13 February 1858) was a Prussian economist who is often regarded as the first to elaborate a general theory of marginal utility.
Life and work
Gossen studied in Bonn, then worked in the Prussian admin ...
(1810–1858), Prussian economist
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Gossen's laws Gossen's laws, named for Hermann Heinrich Gossen (1810–1858), are three laws of economics:
* Gossen's First Law is the "law" of diminishing marginal utility: that marginal utilities are diminishing across the ranges relevant to decision-making.
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, his laws concerning such economic concepts as
scarcity
In economics, scarcity "refers to the basic fact of life that there exists only a finite amount of human and nonhuman resources which the best technical knowledge is capable of using to produce only limited maximum amounts of each economic good. ...
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marginal utility
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Gossen's second law
Other
* Dative form of
Gossa, a Norwegian island
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