Major publishers are, quite rationally, rarely interested in doing this; it might be good for the author in the long run, but it's not particularly likely to be good for them.
There is only one alternative to being rationally self-interested: sacrificing one's proper interests, either for the sake of other people (which she equates with altruism) or for the sake of the supernatural (which she calls mysticism) (1982a, ch. 7).
But if we're all rationally self-interested, and we know we're all rationally self-interested, we know everyone else will also try to get a free ride, in which case it is doubly irrational to voluntarily pitch in.
The American electorate, in other words, is rationally self-interested.
It did not matter that their countries lacked the human material – self-motivated and rationally self-interested individuals – apparently necessary for the pursuit of national wealth and power.
A rationally self-interested individual will not voluntarily pay for public goods if she believes others will pay and she can get a free ride.
Unlike Hawks's rationally self-interested Lorelei Lee, Huston's Roslyn Taber (sprung from a screenplay by Monroe's estranged husband, Arthur Miller), is a blank screen upon which the variously damaged men (Clark Gable, Montgomery Clift, Eli Wallach) project their boyish needs for succor and sympathy.
Rather than the rationally self-interested individual presumed by liberal political theory or the self-contained and independent cogito presumed by Cartesian epistemology, Freud puts forward a divided subject, unknown to itself, an 'I' traversed by multiple agencies.
The insiders know this too so, even if they are interested, they act rationally and wait for the last possible minute before writing a check which ends up driving down valuations.
In his 1989 book International Institutions and State Power, Robert Keohane accepts Waltz's emphasis on system-level theory and his general assumption that states are self-interested actors that rationally pursue their goals.
