Hostname: page-component-77c89778f8-vsgnj Total loading time: 0 Render date: 2024-07-17T09:58:32.726Z Has data issue: false hasContentIssue false

The Nature of Economic Man—A Reply

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  07 November 2014

C. Reinold Noyes*
Affiliation:
Princeton, N.J.
Get access

Abstract

Image of the first page of this content. For PDF version, please use the ‘Save PDF’ preceeding this image.'
Type
Notes and Memoranda
Copyright
Copyright © Canadian Political Science Association 1951

Access options

Get access to the full version of this content by using one of the access options below. (Log in options will check for institutional or personal access. Content may require purchase if you do not have access.)

References

1 New York, 1948.

2 The French travail and the English “travail” are the same word; but only the English preserves the earlier connotation. That practically disappeared from the French word some time since 1066 a.d. What a commentary on the change in the arduousness of work in the last nine centuries!

3 Journal of Political Economy, LVIII, 04, 1950, 95.Google Scholar

4 Political Science Quarterly, LXV, 09, 1950, 321.Google Scholar

5 Declining marginal utility is a possible, but not a necessary assumption to explain the declining curve of aggregate demand. Paretan income curves are an equally valid alternative explanation.