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self-interest

the belief that individuals are the best judges of their own interests and should be left to make decisions themselves as customers, employees or entrepreneurs. Self-interest provides a justification for PRIVATE-ENTERPRISE ECONOMIES, which use the PRICE SYSTEM to allocate resources. Compare PATERNALISM, CENTRALLY PLANNED ECONOMIES.
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In experiments, Detert, Martin and their colleagues showed that when participants were aware of people who would be harmed by their choices, they were less likely to make a self-interested choice.
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People are self-interested. At the same time, Smith recognizes no "man of humanity" would ever choose a finger over the lives of thousands.
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Of those participants that preferred to keep the bonus money - the self-interested outcome - the participants who believed that the computer made the choice felt better than those who believed that they had made the choice, even though all of the participants had originally said that they would prefer to keep the money.
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Later, he established that the self-actualizing individuals were both altruistic and self-interested (Maslow, 1970).
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Smith does not investigate about the cause of sympathy, he assumes it empirically, stressing that it is an original sentiment of human nature (40), that "it is often excited so directly and immediately that it cannot reasonably be derived from self-interested affection, that is, from self-love" (41).
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