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Theoretical and Applied Economics
No. 10 / 2007 (515)

Homo oeconomicus

„Thanks to them, money generate even more money,
power generates even more power,
and the word generates even more words.”

Leszek Kolakovski

Originating Political Economics in the rationalist project has brought it at least two inadequacies: one towards the specificity of human nature and another towards the purpose of creativity. In the former situation it has flattened its reasoning capacity by refusing diversity, and in the latter it isolated itself in the rule of quantitism.

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