The the Hello and welcome to Behind the News my name is Doug Henwood.

Two guests today in moments Leslie Salzinger will gender Homo economicists for us and at the bottom of the hour

Forrest Hilton will give us an overview of all the political turmoil in Latin America, from the right-wing

coup in Bolivia to the anti-neoliberal upsurges in Chile and Colombia.

Fordham University Press is just out with mutant neoliberalism, market rule and political

rupture, a collection of essays edited by William Callison and Zachary Manfredi.

It's a perspective on where neoliberalism is a decade after the financial crisis that was at first taken to be its death blow.

But the Beast lives on.

A few weeks ago, I had one of the contributors Quinn Slobonian on to talk about neoliberal opposition to the EU.

And now here's Leslie Salzinger to talk about her essay in the volume, Sexing Home Economicists,

Finding Masculinity at work.

She's an Associate Professor and Vice Chair of Research and Women's Studies at work. She's an associate professor and vice chair of research and

gender and women studies at Berkeley. Leslie Salziger.

Homo Economicis is an ancient concept, but it's acquired some new salience in the

neoliberal era.

So first of all, what do we mean by the concept of Homo economicis?

What kind of character is he and he's usually a he?

So when people talk about Homo economicis, they, I mean this sort of classic idea of economic man is this notion that you are this purely rational subject who is capable of seeing things in a way that is devoid of anything

except one's pure personal self-interest so there's no emotional muddying of the waters you're not

concerned about taking care of other people you don't have to fuss with morals or

ethics but instead you do what is best for yourself and the sort of

the concept of it's the way that is then embedded in capitalism and then more recently in neoliberalism in particular is this concept that if everybody is simply following their own self-interest in a very straightforward way that the market will then do the work of

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