How do you calculate consumer's surplus? What happens to consumer's surplus when the price of a commodity rises?
Consumer's surplus = Total utility (in money terms) ? Total expenditure
Amount of consumer's surplus will decrease when price rises because part of the consumer surplus will be taken away by the supplier in the form of a higher price.
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