| 单词 | economical man |
| 释义 | > as lemmaseconomical man economical man n. Economics = economic man n. at economic n. and adj. Compounds. ΚΠ 1821 C. R. Prinsep tr. J.-B. Say Treat. Polit. Econ. II. iii. v. 258 The economical man [Fr. une personne économe] balances his means against his present or future wants, and those of his family and friends, not forgetting the calls of humanity. 1880 W. Bagehot Econ. Stud. ii. 83 The nature of the ‘man’ who first occupied new countries did not ‘conform’ to the standard of economical man; the being of reality was not the being of the hypothesis. The first men..nearly approached in nature to the present savage man... They could not make any of the articles which we now call ‘wealth’. 1973 Boundary 2 1 616 Confessional poetry is the epic of what Hannah Arendt calls the economical man whose value frame extends only to the field of his domestic existence. 2000 Systems Res. & Behavioral Sci. (Nexis) 17 433 On the other hand [you have] refined mathematical macroeconomic models built on the reduction called ‘economical man’. < as lemmas |
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