So I admit to a degree of self-interest when I first picked up this book.
That see-no-evil piety meets blatant self-interest when the anti-abortionists come to town.
People respond to incentives and will act in their own self-interest when confronted with any set of rules.
But are voters really voting against their self-interest when they vote for candidates who share their values?
In an atmosphere where potshots quickly escalate into raging topics, it is easy to perceive self-interest when an ex-player becomes hypercritical.
She is one of the prospective candidates, but she has denied she was acting out of self-interest when she reported her rivals to the party leadership.
Gary A. Greenberg, a minority owner in the Vernon Downs racetrack in central New York, which includes electronic gambling, said he suspected lawmakers were thinking about their own self-interest when they backed away from the ban.
Mr. González-Páramo even accused investors of cynical self-interest when they pleaded for a European version of quantitative easing, the use of large purchases of securities to encourage economic growth.
We even have a tendency to view it as "inauthentic" when people support policies that aren't in their self-interest — when a rich man supports higher taxes on the rich, he's somehow seen as strange, and probably a hypocrite.
He introduced a profit-sharing scheme for his employees – an act of enlightened self-interest when capital was short in the early years of the West German economic miracle.
Yet when Benjamin Page interviews the rich he finds that they, "acknowledged a focus on fairly narrow economic self-interest" when discussing their engagement in the political process.
