Self-Interest

The denial of Self-Interest is, in itself, immoral!

Economics and Moral Intuition, Arnold Kling | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty 2009

Study of Riker's take on Popular votes comes up with: the Popular vote is meaningless because Voters vote in support of their Self-Interest; or Voters are mislead in what their true Self-Interest is by clever device.

Riker and the Mathematician's Fallacy, Bryan Caplan | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty 2009

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Metaphors on Self-Interest 2009

In "The Narcissistic Synthesis", I proposed that the optimal synthesis of the two opposing ethical imperatives of the developing self--the Grandiose Self (GS) and the Idealized Object (IO) -- was Individualism, or as it is sometimes called, "Enlightened Self-Interest".

Archive 2009-03-01 Dr. Sanity 2009

I know this is asking a lot, O Vile Lords of Contrariness, Stupidity, Corruption, Vice, Narrow Self-Interest and Betrayal, Wretched be Thy Names, for Thou hath ordained of late that door shall swing mainly in the other direction.

Archive 2009-04-26 2009

See the survey article by Sears and Funk in Mansbridge, ed., *Beyond Self-Interest*.

Voters As Mad Scientists, Bryan Caplan | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty 2009

Bush's Recession, Rooted in Self-Interest yahooBuzzArticleHeadline = 'Bush\'s Recession, Rooted in Self-Interest'; yahooBuzzArticleSummary = 'Article: While there are many technical explanations for the current recession, the underlying cause is the pervasive ideology of self-interest that has guided President Bush\'s Administration and permeated mainstream American ethics.'

Bush's Recession, Rooted in Self-Interest 2008

Time and space preclude a detailed exposition of the nature and emergence of rational morality here; however, such an exposition is given by Craig Biddle in his book Loving Life: The Morality of Self-Interest and the Facts That Support It, the opening chapters of which are freely available at his web site www. craigbiddle.com.

On Thursday, the Legg report will be published along with... 2008

The book that everyone ought to read is this: ‘Loving Life: The Morality of Self-Interest and the Facts that Support it’ by Craig Biddle.

On Thursday, the Legg report will be published along with... 2008

With clarifications indicated in violet between square brackets Self-Interest versus Interest in Others as Bases for an Ethical Life

How To Lead an Ethical Life 2008