Homo economicus

• homo economicus
• homo oeconomicus

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.

Homo economicus

1. (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.

• economic human
• economic man

• Homo reciprocans

• Homo idioticus
• homo negronus
• Homo superior, Homo superioris