The term Homo economicus, or economic man, is the portrayal of humans as agents who are consistently rational and narrowly self-interested, and who pursue...
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benefit for themselves. This concept stands in contrast to the idea of homo economicus, which states the opposite theory that human beings are exclusively...
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Feminist economics (section Homo economicus)
in the least. The neoclassical economic model of a person is called Homo economicus, describing a person who "interacts in society without being influenced...
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as shown by the homo economicus principle; however, it has been shown that human populations are more “benevolent than homo economicus” and therefore rarely...
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Names for the human species (redirect from Homo technologicus)
In addition to the generally accepted taxonomic name Homo sapiens (Latin: 'wise man', Linnaeus 1758), other Latin-based names for the human species have...
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methodology of other social sciences, especially of economics. For example, homo economicus is the result of a consistent abstraction-idealization process. One...
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Neoclassical economists created the indefinitely abstract notion of homo economicus by following the same procedure. Economists abstract from all individual...
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neoliberalism where each human is assumed to be an economically motivated homo economicus. New Public Management is one example of managerialism, where public...
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established in 1983 as an occasional series concerned with aspects of the Homo economicus concept. The founding editor-in-chief was Manfred J. Holler (University...
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Switzerland) and in 2017 released their album 'Western Lies'. The single 'Homo Economicus' from the album won the M4Music Demotape Clinic award for best rock...
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