Sentences with phrase «economic self interest»

This is so because human rights obligations are viewed to ethically trump other values such as economic self interest or utility maximization as has been explained in significant detail in recent entries on this website.

It was enlightened economic self interest.

Not exact matches

But while the world's second - largest economy, which self - identified as a «Near - Arctic State» in its new white paper, may have it's own economic and foreign policy interests in mind, experts cautioned that doesn't mean a geopolitical standoff is coming.

And as U.S. economic growth becomes self - sustaining, interest rates can be allowed to rise, which would offer more competition to non-income paying assets such as gold.

Politics became an exercize in the degree to which the perspective of labor's economic self - interest could be foreshortened and sidetracked.

The only thing you have wrong is inserting your clear self interest and calling for the government to not intervene, despite the fact that our debt to income ratio is the highest of the G7 countries and higher than it was in the US in 2008 — this is not part of a normal economic cycle and you're being irresponsible.

Rather than founding the nation on shared moral or religious ideals, the framers looked to economic self - interest and self - preservation to unify the new nation.

So we Americans in the bottom 98 % are finally beginning to care about self - interest and economic survival?

Emphasis has always been on India's socio - economic interests, not on surrender to foreign pressure and laying bare our economic space for MNC occupation, subverting our Constitutional values, cultural heritage and march towards a self - confident future.

The protection or pursuit of «gold» by nations, that is, of economic self - interest in a modern (i.e., capitalist) mode, is not the primary cause of modern wars.

The recommendations of the Club of Rome were heavily criticized by business interests who had most to lose, but their claims served only to illustrate how much political and economic ideology is driven by self - interest.

In general it abandoned the effort to speak on economic issues, leaving that to professional economists who were committed to rational self - interest.

According to this theory, economics is a «value - free» science, and the economic world can be defined in terms of the competition for scarce resources between self - interested individuals with unlimited wants.

In an analogous fashion, he moves from the commonsense observation that economic self «interest plays a significant role in foreign policy to the sweeping and unjustified conclusion that it is pretty much all of foreign policy.

Regional blocks will at some stage become conscious of the need for them to defend their economic self - interest, especially if they too become technologically self - reliant.

These were able to withstand the pressures of the world establishment and its neo-liberal policies and ensure a stable economic policy and growth of their productive capacity based on their national self - interest, even if the workers too were suppressed during this process.

The main point of all my writing on this subject has been to raise our sights above what Pope John Paul II called «economism» — a view of economies driven solely by a materialist, economic understanding of self - interest, the profit motive, cupidity, and greed, and a denial of all the nobler human aspirations.

They were voting for what they saw as a particular Jewish concern» social justice» that rightly trumps economic self - interest.

Voters who place cultural or moral concerns above economic self - interest are obviously beset by a form of false consciousness (Frank never uses the term, but his analysis presupposes it).

We expect students to have practical goals, which means self - interested ones in economic terms.

Nevertheless, it was on individual self - interested rationality that his economic theory was based, and the result was increasingly to liberate behavior based on this rationality from community restrictions.

The economic reforms Leo proposes in Rerum Novarum can never succeed within the confines of Enlightenment philosophy — within, say, a social contract understanding of society, authority, and law, where the common good is the sum total of private goods determined by a calculus of self - interest.

Modern economics is thc science of self - interest, of how to best accommodate individual behavior by means of markets and the commodification of human relations... In this economic world view, the traditional human faculty of reason gets short - changed and degraded to act as the servant of sensory desires.

That is that «Babylon the Great» refers to the entire global society and accompanying economic structure developed throughout history on the foundations of self - interest and greed.

A tradition of local governance that resists both a supine dependence on Washington, D.C. or dominance by remote corporate interests; a patriotism that believes in the noble possibilities of the American experiment; vibrant churches and church leaders who remind us that life is more than our economic or political self - interest» it's not surprising that Lauck finds these features of Dakota life attractive.

Consensus - oriented political leaders, advocates of economic modernization, and professional social scientists have all argued, in one way or another, that economic self - interest does — and should — matter most in politics.

This interpretation of the election fits nicely with the conventional view of American politics, held by academics and journalists alike, that party coalitions and electoral outcomes are rooted in economic self - interest.

This is not to say that «enlightened self - interest» or a policy of unrestrained economic individualism will make a society either just or as a whole prosperous.

Self - interest as the basic drive for economic life was replaced by concern for the Church of Jesus Christ of the Latter - Day Saints.

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 constEconomic 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 consteconomic 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

Indeed, if marriage is not simply another economic institution determined by the laws of the market, but a fundamental human institution that corresponds to our nature as self - giving and procreating persons, marriage remains a vital institution for all people, whatever their income and economic interests.

Conservatives, radicals suggest, stress democratic process and freedom more than justice in order to rationalize the economic self - interest that exploits the poor.

When a society or a nation tries to direct its course on the basis of aggressive self - interest, denial of the rights and liberties of others, economic greed, lust for power, race prejudice, vindictiveness, and deception, situations are created which if unchecked lead to war.

Henry Olsen has chronicled the Republican Party's descent into the economic politics of business - class self - interest.

These passages show beyond doubt that self - interest plays a crucial role in Adam Smith's understanding of economic processes.

Against that background we may turn to an assessment of self - interest in economic activities as envisaged by Adam Smith.

In this short account I have tried to elucidate Adam Smith's views on self - interest and justice in the economic sphere not to suggest that he can be relied upon to guide the contemporary quiet for the development of people.

Perhaps they were reluctant to appeal to people's self - interest, or perhaps they were slow to believe that economic self - interest could work against war.

A republican model of economic governance sees the company as a self - governing association of members that incorporates owners, employees, users, and other agents that have an interest in the company's success.

On the other hand, the poor, dependent classes who suffered from inequality and economic domination had a self - interest in republican equality.

Instead of dividing Washington Heights in half, the proposed map makes it a «community of interest» — a self - contained area with common institutions, cultural, economic, political and social bonds.

The strange, self - interested, hermetically - sealed national debate we have been having - one in which the interests of other countries are treated as meaningless and the concerns of critics are treated like blasphemy - seems to extend to the formal economic documents the government is publishing.

«I am unable to watch passively whilst certain policies are enacted in order to meet the fiscal self imposed restraints that I believe are more and more perceived as distinctly political rather than in the national economic interest.

«The coalition's dead end economic policies may please the self - interested City elite, but for real people in real communities they are a tragedy — a national disgrace.»

Certainly the attitude of the UK government has not helped; on one hand urging the eurozone to accept the «remorseless logic» of greater economic and fiscal integration, including Germany taking on liabilities for weaker eurozone states via debt pooling, while on the other refusing to take part in such measures itself and zealously looking after its own self interest.

In short, parliament must be ready to exercise veto power over any Brexit deal that does not ultimately serve the national interest — because this government simply can not be trusted not to deliver serious economic self - harm on the altar of blind ideology.

Can we park the constitutional question and reach consensus on a shared future for Northern Ireland itself; and in so doing agree a programme for government which addresses here and - now socio / economic realities, as opposed to each side merely identifying and promoting their own agenda and self interests?

Remember that many people vote Tory only out of economic self - interest.

With the price of fossil fuels and other commodities rising, a lot of that is down to economic self - interest.

People, firms and other economic «agents» act rationally, in their own self - interest and with profound insight.