This is not the fatal defect of capitalism, as CSR-advocates appear to believe; it is the very reason capitalism works.Maybe so, those advocates might reply, but perhaps the system would work even better if there were a bit more benevolence in the boardroom and a bit less self-interest.
Less self-interested parties have considered it the season of the "flip-flop".
Cruz may be no less self-interested, but he made a different calculation.
Let's move onto the more positive and less self-interested areas.
And if that brings about a less ambitious, less self-interested species of MP, so be it.
Less self-interested colleagues ought to embrace the notion of a truly ambitious space program with clear goals that stir all Americans' imaginations and challenge this country's scientists to think far beyond the Moon.
Trade unions and industrial lobbies use such arguments to make their demands for protection look less self-interested, and guilt-wracked American and European bien pensants swallow them whole.The spread of global sourcing may help to unpick these politics.
In the real world, people are fairly rational and more or less self-interested; the qualifiers are complicated to model, so it makes sense to see what you can learn by dropping them.
(This last makes some intuitive sense: the more senior your position, the more power you have to help others through networking, and thus the less self-interested your networking has to be).
The reasons why taxi drivers as well as, incidentally, local and national authorities object to pedicabs are a little less self-interested than that.London's 7,000 licensed taxi drivers have everyday experience of pedicabs as unregulated death-traps that are not subject to parking restrictions, traffic regulations and maintenance standards.
They were the inspiration of reformers who wanted to take power away from political machines and corporate interests, and return it to the people, who were believed to be wiser and more capable than the bosses, because they were less self-interested.
