Homo economicus

English Alternative forms en homo economicus homo oeconomicus Etymology A pseudotaxonomic name, by analogy with mul 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. Proper noun 1 en economics A human being regarded as a rational and narrowly self-interested actor capable of making judgments in order to attain its own particular goals. en economic human economic man en Homo reciprocans Related terms en Homo idioticus homo negronus homo sovieticus Homo superior Homo superioris Translations human being German: de Homo oeconomicus m, de rationaler Agent m Italian: it homo oeconomicus Polish: pl homo oeconomicus m-pr Vietnamese: vi con người kinh tế See also en rational choice theory rational egoism Further reading en pseudo-loans from Latin