Such regulation would amount to telling consumers that they can't think straight, and would reduce consumer utility, at least in the short run, by denying them $9.99 "bargains."

相关的管制等于是告诉消费者不能想的太简单，并且禁止9.99美元特价品，至少从短期看会降低消费者效用。

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We will make very few assumptions about the form of utility that a consumer might have.

相比于消费者实际所体验到的，我们将只做较少的关于效用的假设。

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Thus, doubling the utility doesn't change the preferences of the consumer.

故此，使效用加倍无法改变消费者的偏好。

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This is not the same thing at all as trying to maximise consumer utility through imports.

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