Homo economicus

专有名词

英文释义

专有名词
  1. A human being regarded as a rational and narrowly self-interested actor capable of making judgments in order to attain its own particular goals.

词形变化

homo economicus alternative homo oeconomicus alternative

词源

A pseudotaxonomic name, by analogy with Homo sapiens. The earlier term economic man was used for the first time in the late nineteenth century by critics of John Stuart Mill's work on political economy.
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