- homo economicus is a hypothetical person who behaves in exact accordance with their rational self-interest.
On the Kantian view, homo economicus is an impartial judge deliberating about applying universal principles, while on the utilitarian view, he is a self-interested bargainer wheeling and dealing in the marketplace.
As such, feminist philosophers have charged that dominant views of the self as rational and independent are fundamentally misleading.
Although represented as genderless, raceless, ageless, and classless, feminists argue that the Kantian subject and homo economicus mask a white, healthy, youthfully middle-aged, middle- or upper-class, heterosexual, cisgender (denoting or relating to a person whose sense of personal identity and gender corresponds with their birth sex) male citizen.
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