Hobbes rejected self-regarding individuals as the natural basis of the family, unlike modern economists.

Evidence

Hobbes well understood the fundamental noncoherence of families made of wholly self-regarding humans, which is why he, unlike Thatcher and many modern economists, did not formulate families as a priori. — Wendy Brown, Undoing the Demos, 553

Categorization

• XREF: Connects to the critique of Becker-style human capital theory of the family and Thatcher’s individualism — central to Brown’s attack on neoliberal reconfiguration of kinship.
• CANDY: A tidy counterexample: Hobbes, the arch-individualist, refused to treat families as made of self-interested atoms — a fun strike against modern economists.