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Comment author: Eugine_Nier 08 April 2013 03:52:41AM *  1 point [-]

Economists frequently assume humans have utility functions as part of their spherical cow model of human behavior. Unfortunately, they sometimes forget that this is just a spherical cow model, especially once one gets away from modeling collective economic behavior.