For a suggestion that Mark Blaug might have fallen into the same trap, here is an extract from p.94 of an article by Uskali Maki at: http://ejpe.org/pdf/6-3-art-5.pdf

"We can find a further sense of relevance in the same article. In this sense the relevance of game theory is "undeniable since it is concerned with interaction between instrumentally rational individuals and that is almost a definition of the domain of social science" (Blaug 2009a, 224).
This is rather striking as it implies, among other things, that any highly imaginary other-worldly (game theoretic or whatever) toy model satisfies
the desideratum of relevance insofar as it contains ideas about "interaction between instrumentally rational individuals"-regardless of
how fictional these may be."

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	My late good friend, Mark Baugh, was wont to say that the problem with economists when they came to talk about the real world was the they believed their own models. I heard him say something like that many times but never saw it in print, although I suspect he did commit it to print somewhere in his voluminous writings.
	I am writing an essay that amply illustrates Mark's comment and would like to quote him on the opening page.
	I would be most grateful if anyone could help we with a reference to where Mark made that comment, or something similar, in print?
Richard Lipsey