In his 1888 " History of Political Economy " he used the term " economic man " as a critical description of the human being as conceived by economic theory, and he may have coined the term.
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But it is precisely this focus on Economic Man or Consumer Man that Frank says provides " confirmation of Nader's lifelong lack of interest in major social causes like civil rights, women's rights, gay rights and poverty ."
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Scanlon did not believe in what he called " the economic man theory . " Piece work systems and ideas about human motivation at the time reduced the worker to something that was thought to be only motivated by money.
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The new economic man or woman must be able to rebound from rolling layoffs, retrain for several careers, master responsibilities once reserved for managers, navigate complexity and diversity and somehow make up for the corporate retreat from pensions and health care.
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In the 20th century, Lionel Robbins rational choice theory came to dominate mainstream economics and the term economic man took on a more specific meaning of a person who acted rationally on complete knowledge out of self-interest and the desire for wealth.
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In an early debate with liberal economists ( a debate later recapitulated by substantivist and formalist economic anthropologists in the 1960s ), he argued for the creation of a new sub-discipline, colonial economics, which was not predicated upon universalizing models of economic man.
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In 1993, the anthology Beyond Economic Man : Feminist Theory and Economics became one of the first tomes to compile work done by women and men who label themselves feminist economists and have an expressed interest in how women uniquely are impacted by economics.
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Paula England 1993 . The Separative Self : Androcentric Bias in Neoclassical Assumptions, in Marianne A . Ferber and Julie A . Nelson ( eds ), Beyond Economic Man : Feminist Theory and Economics, Chapter 2, Chicago, IL : University of Chicago Press, 37 53.
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The new study chips " yet another sliver from the rational model of economic man, " said Stanford University psychologist Brian Knutson, who reviewed the Swiss research . " Instead of cold, calculated reason, it is passion that may plant the seeds of revenge, " he said.
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Nell is known for his critical view of the methodological and philosophical foundations of Neo-Classical Economics ( what Nell calls free-market economists ), examined in his best known book " Rational Economic Man " ( Cambridge University Press, 1975 ) and coauthored with English rationalist philosopher Martin Hollis.
