This isn't necessarily an entirely self-interested decision on Robert's part – though as a "Pom", the protection of Ivan would be useful – but Ivan embodies a rageful, wounded certainty that starts to appeal, dangerously, to Robert, who in his own way has also lost his home.
Some women also seem to have internalized gendered norms that value women as self-denying and always thinking in the best interest of her children, over making self-interested decisions.
Properly functioning markets should transform a myriad of self-interested decisions into the common good.
and encouraged extreme levels of executive compensation and other "self-interested decisions".
This flawed assumption – that self-interested decisions can be adequately portrayed with mechanical rules – underpinned the creation of synthetic financial instruments and legitimised, on supposedly scientific grounds, their marketing to pension funds and other financial institutions around the world.
The paper proposes an ad hoc grid resource management system, the producers and consumers of ad hoc grid resource are modeled as the self-interested decision-makers described in microeconomic theory.
Charles Weijer (1998) points out, however, that in some cases a pregnant woman's decision to refuse treatment and sacrifice herself for her child should be counted as an autonomous decision worth respecting, and that we should not assume that only self-interested decisions can be autonomous.
The owner is not required to rely on her own strength to vindicate her right to make self-interested decisions about the object assigned to her: if Jennifer's employees occupy the steel factory to keep it operating despite her wishes, she can call the police and have them evicted; she does not have to do this herself or even pay for it herself.
The theory of rational man gave birth to the theory of economic man -- a person who makes considered, rational, and self-interested decisions.
Ladies and gentlemen, if you are as into free will and self-interested decisions as I am... and if you have a rocking beach body, you know where to find me.
