This may have been the "invisible hand" that Adam Smith talked about, which ensured that otherwise self-interested businessmen behaved in a moral manner.
Expecting to be acclaimed for his revelation, instead Stockmann finds the whole town turning against him: not just his mayoral brother, but also the liberal press and self-interested businessmen.
Thanks partly to Kaechele's KK Projects | Life Is Art Foundation, a two-year-old shoestring operation supported mainly by a couple of interested local businessmen and the participating artists themselves, a long-neglected neighborhood known as St. Roch (pronounced rock) is starting to find its feet.
It's just that their skin colour was different.In his memoir "Dreams From My Father", Mr Obama describes how, after six months or so as a community organiser on the South Side of Chicago in the mid-1980s, he and three church volunteers ventured into a bleak neighbourhood called Altgeld to try to get local businessmen interested in providing jobs for the neighbourhood's youth.
In France, Bordeaux is another city frequented by Chinese tourists – especially rich Chinese businessmen interested in shopping for expensive bottles of red wine.
Mahmood's investigation was based on the pretence that he was an Indian businessman interested in setting up a cricket tournament for betting purposes.
This latest version of "Dracula" will be set in London in the 1890s, with the count transformed into an American businessman interested in bringing modern science to Victorian society.
In this way, the self-interested activities of businessmen also serve the social good.
The audience, a motley gathering of students, businessmen and interested citizens, listened attentively during the event and posed interesting questions.
"At first a lot of businessmen were interested in buying the house," said AnnMarie Aboud, the listing agent and the owner's spokeswoman.
For a while with Hubert & Hubert, then in '59 went into business for himself with his wife Babette-Bab E. In Kansas City, all businessmen are interested in what's going on in the city, & he thought there might be a similar interest here.
