Article: Learning to be sociable: the evolution of homo economicus.(Homo Economicus)(Report)

Article: Homo Economicus meets G. H. Mead: a contribution to the critique of economic theory.(Homo Economicus)(Report)
The American Journal of Economics and Sociology;  April 1, 2008 ;     700+ words ......this view, then, Homo economicus--economic man--is a misnomer. For the Homo economicus that the modern...The motives of Homo economicus cannot be either...The actions of Homo economicus can no more be...

Article: Homo Ludens and Esau e Jaco, Homo Economicus and Hard Times: literary representations of the nineteenth-century bourgeoisie.(analysis of characters in works of Johan Huizinga, Ian Watt, Machado de Assis)
Portuguese Studies;  January 1, 2000 ;     700+ words ......introduce the concepts of Homo Ludens and Homo Economicus as they appear in the work of Johan...profile of Bounderby with that of Homo Economicus. Finally, I will examine Machado de...of the European Dickens, who chose Homo Economicus. This is another of the original aspects...

Article: The heterodox economics of "the most orthodox of orthodox economists": Frank H. Knight.
The American Journal of Economics and Sociology;  July 1, 1997 ;     700+ words ......erected was Knight's rehabilitation of economic man. Paul Samuelson referred to his former...market order. II Rational and Irrational Economic Man Defining the essential tenets of orthodoxy...made extensive use of the concept of economic man himself, he nonetheless indicated a...

Article: Editor's introduction.
The American Journal of Economics and Sociology;  April 1, 2008 ;     700+ words ......evidence in support of the Homo economicus theorem but in the context...intergenerational gift-giving. The Homo economicus theorem is a frequent topic...her net worth is what I term Homo economicus. What needs to be remembered...

Article: All You Can Eat: Greed, Lust and the New Capitalism.
Community Action;  May 13, 2002 ;     700+ words ......She is talking here of the rise of homo economicus. For McQuaig, this is essentially...they are largely driven by the narrow homo economicus view of the world. McQuaig, along...beyond an understanding of people as homo economicus. McQuaig gave a presentation based...

Article: economic man
A Dictionary of Sociology;      67 words ...economic man A term used in classical economic theory (see LAISSEZ-FAIRE ECONOMICS ), denoting the individual's rational deployment of labour...

Article: Heraclitian vespers.
The American Journal of Economics and Sociology;  January 1, 2004 ;     700+ words ......alone, which we may summarize under homo economicus, would not, I think, have been effective...democracy. Further, and importantly, homo economicus, standing alone, has always remained...inclusively interpreted, embodies both homo economicus and politics as exchange. By this...

Article: The Moral Sense.
Reason;  December 1, 1993 ;     700+ words ......and see various clones of a one-dimensional fellow named Homo economicus who, with single-minded determination, rationally acts to...the utility that moves him is uniquely his own. Nor does Homo economicus confine himself to the market. The work of path-breaking...

Article: Adventures in the Aporetic: Anthropological Alterities.(ANTHROPOLOGY)(Brief Article)(Book Review)
Reference & Research Book News;  August 1, 2005 ;     89 words ......major aporetic structures of living in both the day-to-day and in modernity in general. Among them are the interpretive turn in archaeology, the concept of culture from Nietzsche to Sapir, and Dumont's economic man. He does not index his work.

Article: Dream Weaver.(author Richard Weaver)
National Review;  March 25, 1996 ;     700+ words ......that matter, anyone who tried to function entirely as an economic man, a mere predator of the cash nexus, would undoubtedly fail...behavior, things that must be honored (an interesting word). An economic man would be a feral monster with no partners or customers. None...

Article: Feminist Economics: Interrogating the Masculinity of Rational Economic Man.(Review)
Arena Magazine;  August 1, 2001 ;     700+ words ......Feminist Economics: Interrogating the Masculinity of Rational Economic Man, Cheltenham, Edward Elgar, 1999. In the weeks leading up...iconic figure of Robinson Crusoe, the quintessential rational economic man, who functions as the paradigmatic explanation in the pedagogy...

Article: Herbert Alexander Simon
The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition;      142 words ......Simon was a pioneer of the development of computer artificial intelligence . In economics, he contended that the theory of economic man, which argues that the individual invariably chooses a course that will maximize personal benefits, failed to account for...

Article: Ideal type
The Concise Oxford Dictionary of World Religions;      119 words ......observations of actual instances have to be described through the isolation of characteristic features: examples are ‘economic man’, ‘marginal man’, ‘sect’ , ‘church’ , ‘Gemeinschaft’ (a group...

Article: The market.(Brief article)(Book review)
Reference & Research Book News;  November 1, 2006 ;     123 words ......configurations, and how it relates to colonialization, compromise, and resistance. Others explored include market fundamentalism, market populism, economic man, and globalism. Distributed by Blackwell Publishing. ([c]20062005 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR)