HES: RE: QUERY--Origins of Homo economicus?

[John Womack]

I wrote:
>JSTOR's first reference to "homo oeconomicus" is a review by 
>Fischer, 1898; to "homo economicus," a review by the editor of the 
>Economic Journal, 1892.
>The phrase in various languages goes back farther, of course.
>
>John Womack


I was in too much of a hurry yesterday. The 1898 review (mentioning 
homo oeconomicus) is not by Fischer but by Fisher (as in Irving), of 
Pantaleoni's Pure Economics (in translation).

John Womack