With, needless to day, consequences for everyone else.
Opening up a country's markets, the argument went, would increase overall wealth in every country, and policies for internal redistribution would help the inevitable losers or else their personal misery could have serious social consequences for everyone else.
Why not challenge that person either privately or publicly and let them know that their behavior has negative consequences for everyone else involved?
The problem may have started with George Osborne exploiting pensions as political ammunition, making grandiose claims to current older voters with little thought to the long-term consequences for everyone else.
The consequences should concern everyone else.
When you permit weak links to exist without consequence, they drag everyone else down, especially your top performers.
So let's turn here to thinking carefully about this world built by white men, because the architects have ensured this world protects them and, as a consequence, works against everyone else.
The important question thrown up by the crisis, Lanchester says, is "whether a society should arrange itself primarily for the convenience of its richest citizens and its richest, most powerful economic sector, irrespective of the consequences of that for everyone else".
That report urged big central banks to "internalise the spillover effects of their policies", recommending that they meet at regular intervals to consider, and publicly report upon, the consequences of their decisions for everyone else.
Regulators want to eliminate risk at Wall Street banks, and that will have unintended consequences – like higher interest rates — for everyone else.
