Investopedia contributors come from a range of backgrounds, and over 25 years there have been thousands of expert writers and editors who have contributed. Erika Rasure is globally-recognized as a ...

Consumer surplus is the amount exceeding an equilibrium price the consumer is willing to pay. The equilibrium price is an idealized price, in which the demand for the good equals its supply. If the ...

Consumer surplus and producer surplus figures are derived from demand and supply curve analysis. The demand curve shows how many quantities of a product consumers are willing to purchase at different ...

Christina Majaski writes and edits finance, credit cards, and travel content. She has 14+ years of experience with print and digital publications. In mainstream economics, consumer surplus is the ...

Paul Solman: Today’s Paul Samuelson excerpt explains the concept of “consumer surplus.” See the other transcripts we posted this week on the basics of economics here and here.) To Samuelson, it was ...

Background Following suggestions that developers should be allowed to capture a defined share of the total value generated by their technologies, the amount of surplus accruing to the pharmaceutical ...

This week'sFree exchange columndiscusses attempts to measure the consumer surplus generated by the internet (summaryhere). We are inviting experts in the field to comment on the piece and on related ...