Marshallian surplus

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Marshallian surplus, in economics, is the idea that economic welfare is divided into producer surplus and consumer surplus. It was named after Alfred Marshall.

Consumer surplus is the willingness to pay over and above what they have to pay. It is near impossible to measure individual change in utility for every price change, so estimates are used. One such estimate is using the Marshallian Consumer Surplus method.