Many see the "economic man" as being quite different from real people.

Many economists, even contemporaries, have criticized this model of economic man.

He has no reassuring economic wise men, and his tax-cut numbers don't add up.

His homo economicus or "economic man" was also more often represented as a moral person.

Japan, once the economic sick man of the world, is projected to grow 3 percent, nearly double Europe's pace.

Classical economists assume the existence of the "perfectly rational economic man".

But what do ants really have to do with the behavior of economic man?

Germany, the economic sick man of Europe, has many more banks and local branches than it needs.

There is another way that low-income workers differ from "economic man."

Best line of the convention: "Don't be economic girlie men!"