Fundamentally, we're self-interested.
This stance has a superficial it may have a more self-interested rationale.
All of which may be dismissed as the self-interested carping of fat cats.
If so, that makes the country's self-interested neighbours accessories after the fact.
“This is the most self-interested thing we have ever done,” he said.
The one is a love which is self-centered, self-devoted, self-interested: It desires its own interest; it is the parent of jealousy.
Marketers attempt to manage behavior by creating alternative choices in the target's environment that lead to voluntary self-interested exchange.
Or is it just because I don't want to confront the fact that people are the way they are, which is to say fundamentally self-interested?
Windmillsand solar cells hardly seem like ways of producing enough electricity to powera busy, self-interested world, as furnaces and steam-turbines now do.
The way to bring socialists and capitalists together is to recognize that markets are efficient and that self-interested human behavior requires social regulation.
If "everybody is like that" - if everybody must be like that - we need not feel guilty about our own self-interested behavior or try to change it.
经过长时间的探讨，经济学家归纳出两点人的特质：“理*”（rational）和“自利”（self-interested）。
Looked at from that Angle, the orderliness we see on the roads is a general expression of the capacity for human society to work in the context of self-interested individualism.
