According to Foucault, what "characterizes homo oeconomicus" is that he is driven by interest and his "action has a multiplying and beneficial value through the intensification of interest." As I will be arguing, I do not think "interest" adequately captures the ethos or subjectivity of the contemporary neoliberal subject; this subject is so profoundly integrated into and hence subordinated to the supervening goal of macroeconomic growth that its own well-being is easily sacrificed to these larger purposes.

Wendy Brown, Undoing the Demos, loc. 166