Question: At which university did the English ethologist, evolutionary biologist and author who coined the phrase God's utility function work?
Context: Richard Dawkins is an English ethologist, evolutionary biologist, and writer.  Dawkins himself has stated that his political views are left-leaning.  However, many of Dawkins's political statements have created controversy even among left-wing and atheist communities. In economics and consumer theory, quasilinear utility functions are linear in one argument, generally the numeraire.  Quasilinear preferences can be represented by the utility function formula_1 where formula_2 is strictly concave.  A nice property of the quasilinear utility function is that, the Marshallian/Walrasian demand for formula_3 does not depend on wealth and therefore is not subject to a wealth effect.  The absence of a wealth effect simplifies analysis and makes quasilinear utility functions a common choice for modelling.  Furthermore, when utility is quasilinear, compensating variation (CV), equivalent variation (EV), and consumer's surplus are algebraically equivalent.  In mechanism design, quasilinear utility ensures that agents can compensate each other with side payments. The Friedman–Savage utility function is the utility function postulated in the theory that Milton Friedman and Leonard J. Savage put forth in their 1948 paper.  They argued that the curvature of an individual's utility function differs based upon the amount of wealth the individual has.  This variably curving utility function would thereby explain why an individual is risk-loving when he has more wealth (e.g., by playing the lottery) and risk-averse when he is poorer (e.g., by buying insurance).  The function has been used widely, including in the field of economic history to explain why social gambling did not necessarily mean that society had gone gambling mad. In consumer theory, a consumer's preferences are called homothetic if they can be represented by a utility function which is homogeneous of degree 1.  For example, in an economy with two goods formula_1, homothetic preferences can be represented by an utility function formula_2 that has the following property: for every formula_3: In economics, the isoelastic function for utility, also known as the isoelastic utility function, or power utility function is used to express utility in terms of consumption or some other economic variable that a decision-maker is concerned with.  The isoelastic utility function is a special case of HARA and at the same time is the only class of utility functions with constant relative risk aversion, which is why it is also called the CRRA utility function. In mathematical optimization, statistics, econometrics, decision theory, machine learning and computational neuroscience, a loss function or cost function is a function that maps an event or values of one or more variables onto a real number intuitively representing some "cost" associated with the event.  An optimization problem seeks to minimize a loss function.  An objective function is either a loss function or its negative (in specific domains, also variously called a reward function, a profit function, a utility function, a fitness function, etc.), in which case it is to be maximized. Roy's identity (named for French economist René Roy) is a major result in microeconomics having applications in consumer choice and the theory of the firm.  The lemma relates the ordinary (Marshallian) demand function to the derivatives of the indirect utility function.  Specifically, where formula_1 is the indirect utility function, then the Marshallian demand function for good formula_2 can be calculated as: The Hahn's problem (or Hahn's question) refers to the theoretical challenge of building general equilibrium models where money does not enter preferences, yet has a positive equilibrium value.  Money, since it is intrinsically worthless and is not demanded for its own sake, may not be made to enter the utility function and be present like any other good.  The problem is named after the British economist Frank Hahn, who outlined it in his critique of Don Patinkin's placing money inside the utility function. Clinton Richard Dawkins (born 26 March 1941) is an English ethologist, evolutionary biologist and author.  He is an emeritus fellow of New College, Oxford, and was the University of Oxford's Professor for Public Understanding of Science from 1995 until 2008. God's utility function is a phrase coined by Richard Dawkins in his book "River Out of Eden".  "God's utility function" is the fourth chapter in this book.  Dawkins uses this phrase to expound the gene-centered view of evolution by equating the phrase to the "meaning of life" or the "purpose of life".  This is the "why" question about life which philosophers and theologians have been pondering in vain for ages, and is a counterpart to the "how" question about nature which engineers have been able to resolve successfully.
Answer: University of Oxford