Economists, typically baffled by selflessness, have tended to hunt for hidden self-interest in apparent altruism.
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Further, the self-interest of every audience segment will be examined in order to drum up interest.
When people act against their self-interest I see a flashing neon sign: Interesting Psychology Here!
Because businessmen are pursuing their self-interest, which we have been taught is dangerous and immoral.
Is it really in the self-interest of Silicon Valley to set the government on Microsoft?
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Sadly, the self-interest of UN bureaucrats seems seldom to coincide with the public interest.
The self-interest paradigm does not go into quarantine when one joins or leads a non-profit.
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His current circumstances make Clinton the rare politician who can argue for reform out of self-interest.
Their friendship, intermittent over the years, was based on self-interest rather than on intimacy.
Maybe some sort of immigration reform passes (it's in everyone's self-interest) but no tax reform.
This might appear to be corporate self-interest, but Amazon is actually doing the right thing.
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Now they view the U.S. as acting in self-interest rather than according to any moral code.
Such reputational strategies driven by enlightened self-interest operate on at least three strategic tracks.
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Despite the obvious self-interest of the IRS, many of these recurring tax objections clearly are frivolous.
In each of the above situations, those who should know better have ignored facts for self-interest.
Professors are not overpaid, but they are, in general, woefully underworked, often mistaking self-interest for vested-interest.
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In setting strategy, communicating vision, and reaching decisions, common purpose comes first, personal self-interest last.
For better or worse, only self-interest will turn meaningless statements and bold rhetoric into real action.
Up to a point, the cynics are doubtless right: politicians and self-interest go together.
Enlightened self-interest, he believes, should help in making people want to make his ideas work.
You must remember this is a bootleg proposal which has been generated from self-interest.
President Obama and his regulatory legions flaunt very heavy, very visible hands pressing partisan self-interest.
Companies do not make those pledges to technical standards organizations out of generosity, but from self-interest.
The other is its readiness to put its perceived economic self-interest ahead of strategic common sense.
So far Mr Rubin is statesmanlike in public, speaking about American responsibility and self-interest.
Neither side's arguments are without self-interest, observes David Fraley of Gartner Dataquest, a market-research firm.
Motivated for years by corruption, self-interest and party interest, will Ecuador's politicians respond to such overtures?
Here is my real solution to America's debt crisis: Humans seek their own self-interest.
That's quite a lofty argument, made with more than a touch of self-interest given her firm's windfall.
Getting rid of anything that may give rise to inflation is in the self-interest of new joiners.
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