homo economicus
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 1.51 in modern English
25
Scrabble Score
14
Letters
5
Syllables
9
Unique Chars
Meaning
name
A human being regarded as a rational and narrowly self-interested actor capable of making judgments in order to attain its own particular goals.
Etymology
A pseudotaxonomic name, by analogy with 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.