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In mainstream economics schools in the US, humans are considered to be standard units with a single, uniform motivation, and who act purely rational in all times and situations.

Actually studying people gets in the way of such assumptions.  Thus, anthropology departments are not faring too well in the academic wars for funding.

by Zwackus on Sat Nov 15th, 2008 at 06:49:41 AM EST
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... where even reading anthropologists is encouraged continues to dwindle. The American Economics Association was founded by economists who would read the anthropologists of the day, but the marginalists took it over.

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by BruceMcF (agila61 at netscape dot net) on Sat Nov 15th, 2008 at 09:03:46 AM EST
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