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- noun economics A
human being regarded as arational and narrowlyself-interested actor capable of makingjudgments in order to attain its own particulargoals .
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Pseudo-taxonomic name; compare 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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