Crosthwaite, Paul - In: Journal of Cultural Economy 6 (2013) 1, pp. 94-109
This article is an attempt to classify the creature known as <italic>Homo economicus</italic>. Despite its name, <italic>Homo economicus</italic>' line of descent through classical and neoclassical economics indicates that it is barely an evolutionary relative of <italic>Homo sapiens</italic> at all -- that, in fact, it has been traditionally...