Georges Bataille, The Accursed Share

“...Economic activity, considered as a whole, is conceived in terms of particular operations with limited ends. The mind generalizes by composing the aggregate of these operations. Economic science merely generalizes the isolated situation; it restricts its object to operations carried out with a view to a limited end, that of economic man. It does not take into consideration a play of energy that no particular end limits; the play of living matter in general, involved in the movement of light of which it is the result.”
Georges Bataille, The Accursed Share