From Morris Bishop’s A Bowl of Bishop (1954).

for the tomb of economic man

“The Economic Man is dead.” — Peter F. Drucker: The End of Economic Man.

The Economic Man
 He went a crooked mile;
He made a crooked sixpence
 By economic guile.
He bought a crooked cat
 Which caught a crooked mouse,
And they all lived together
 In an economic house.

The house has fallen in
 On Economic Man;
It seems the present tenant’s
 Totalitarian.
A fascist cat pursues
 A communistic mouse,
And they all fight together
 In the new collective house.

But Sociologic Man,
 Inheriting the mess,
Will serve the common welfare
 With social consciousness.
Cooperative cats
 Will fraternize with mice,
And we’ll all romp together
 In a social paradise.