Sentence examples for self-interested behaviour from inspiring English sources

Indeed, self-interested behaviour was usually described as "vicious".

Yet people who condemn such narrowly self-interested behaviour with one breath, sometimes risk endorsing it with the next.

One response to the consultation would be to urge more direct action to curb the self-interested behaviour of some schools, rather than trying to change behaviour by smothering them in new forms of shared accountability.

Highlighting the role of irrational and self-interested behaviour in economic decision making, Conservative backbencher Matthew Hancock and his co-writer, Nadhim Zahawi (also a Conservative MP), presented a blueprint for legislation to protect the public against corporate negligence.

For an individual, it is rational to use a common resource without considering its limitations, but that self-interested behaviour will lead to the depletion of the shared limited resource and that is not in anyone's interest.

Rational decision making assumes that individuals will act to maximize their preferences and engage in self-interested behaviour, but the logic of appropriateness assumes that individuals will conform to external rules norms, routines, procedures, and roles often without consciously realizing that they are making a decision.

The qualitative outcome of rational, self interested behaviour under a voluntary vaccination policy can vary substantially depending on interactions between social contact structure, perceived vaccine and disease risks, and the way that individual vaccination decision-making is modelled.

The whole point of co-ordination is to make co-operative behaviour self-interested.What role then does Mr Osborne envisage for the G20?

These include supposedly simplistic models of individual human behaviour (rational, self-interested, utility-maximising homo economicus) and of corporate behaviour (the notion that the goal of a firm should be to maximise shareholder value).

Therein, consistent with a self-interested approach to the investors' behaviour, social ties enable investors to obtain private information about the ventures to fund and their potential opportunities.

A similar problem arises for those like Rawls who seek to base the social contract on some modification of self-interested behaviour such as self-interest behind the veil of ignorance.