Retrospectives: The Ethology of Homo Economicus
回顾了约翰·斯图亚特·密尔的经济人概念，指出其心理比批评者认为的更丰富，并探讨了偏好的社会起源，对比较经济学和女性主义经济学有参考价值。
Early critics of John Stuart Mill attacked him for creating a monomaniacal economic man concerned only with the accumulation of money. In fact, Mill's construct possessed a considerably richer psychology including desires for leisure, luxury, and sexual relations. This psychology played a central role in Mill's analysis of alternative institutional regimes. Mill also considered the social origins, or ‘ethology,’ of preference structures. Mill's framework provides a useful reference point for ongoing work in comparative economics and feminist economics. In particular, Mill's emphasis on psychological parsimony needs careful reconsideration by advocates of enriching the motives of economic man.