The individual became the ultimate agent of change – an individual conceived as the type of rational actor that populates economists’ models. Such an individual’s identity is not derived from class interests or other sociological characteristics, but from the logic of the market, which dictates maximization of self-interest, whether as a producer, a consumer, or a voter.
个人成为变化的终极代理人——被当成理性行为人、占领了经济学家的模型的个体。这种个体的身份不是来自阶级利益或其他社会特征，而是来自市场的逻辑，即不论作为生产者、消费者还是选民，目标都是个人利益的最大化。