There is a well known passage in which Thorstein Veblen ridicules the neoclassical conception of the economic agent. So far as I remember he uses phrases like "a quivering globule of desire" and "lightning calculator of pleasures and pains". Can anyone help me out with the precise citation for these remarks? Thanks. ======================= Allin Cottrell Department of Economics Wake Forest University Winston-Salem, NC, USA (910) 759-5762 =======================