Economic Man makes logical, rational, self-interested decisions that weigh costs against benefits and maximize value and profit to himself. Economic Man is an intelligent, analytic, selfish creature who has perfect self-regulation in pursuit of his future goals and is unswayed by bodily states and feelings. And Economic Man is a marvelously convenient pawn for building academic theories. But Economic Man has one fatal flaw: he does not exist.
The Marketplace of Perception : Harvard Magazine
(new ambition.. neuroeconomics!)
…and economic man is also a psychopath if we use the DSM-IV.
(Source: dihard)
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