Sentences with phrase «self interest undermined»

If you want to buy the book, you can buy it here: ECONned: How Unenlightened Self Interest Undermined Democracy and Corrupted Capitalism.

Well, she has written what I regard as an ambitious book, ECONned: How Unenlightened Self Interest Undermined Democracy and Corrupted Capitalism.

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Though ostensibly reason becomes the supreme property of his intellectualist self, in an interesting way Kant actually undermines reason's moral sovereignty.

1 The guru of the World Economic Forum, George Soros, has said the same, arguing that a purely transactional approach to economic activity governed by the principle of self - interest, which he labels «market fundamentalism», is in danger of undermining social values and loosening moral constraints.2

Moreover, it has an interest in undermining cultural values that lead to self - control, since those values limit our receptivity to its advertising ploys.

The statement continued: «This has now been undermined by the self - interested actions of one individual.

Our penchant for undermining well known democratic practices, lack of internal democracy, the crave for personal interests as against the general good of the party and the determined posturing of self before others, are to mention a few, the root causes of our political dilemma in the state.

Despite the reluctance of school administrators to speak up and push back against this ludicrous accountability exercise that has been promoted by politicians and corporate education reformers who have many self - interested reasons for maintaining this misguided testing endeavor, it is well - known that the «standardized» testing mandate only serves to continue the false narrative of failing American public education in order to drive the profit - making agenda of those who seek to privatize education and undermine the public trust.

Because they are easily undermined by a more coordinated «marketing campaign» that is highly funded by very serious self - interest groups and self - opinionated elites with an over inflated view of their own abilities, insights, and wisdom.