self-interested

self-interest | American Dictionary

self-interest
noun[ U ]
us/selfˈɪn·trəst, -ˈɪn·tər·əst/
consideration of advantages for yourself in making a decision, usually without worrying about its effect on others:
Each side was thinking only of their own self-interest.

self-interest | Business English

self-interest
noun[ U ]
uk /ˌselfˈɪntrəst/us
a situation in which you consider the advantage to yourself when making decisions, and decide to do what is best for you:
be driven/motivated by self-interest
out of self-interestSome financial companies argue, perhaps out of self-interest, that the standards are dangerous.
commercial/economic/national self-interest

self-interested

adjectiveuk /ˌselfˈɪntərestɪd/ us /-ṱɚ-/
Does the stress on self-interested competitiveness mean that business can ignore wider social responsibilities?

Examples of self-interest

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But that, if possible, is possible only because self-interest is thought to be a ground of reasons independently of morality.
But a third pattern might be to attempt to find somewhat more complex rules about whether altruism is in your long-run self-interest.
One acts from self-interest when one aims at maximizing one's welfare, where welfare is understood as depending exclusively on the goods enjoyed by oneself.
An alternative and safer proposition might be the co-existence of sociality and self-interest, and the importance of this in all social and economic planning.
Far from being mired in self-interest, merchants, these writers affirmed, dedicated themselves to the public good.
Acts that appear altruistic may turn out to serve self-interest indirectly when account is taken of side-effects (rewards and punishments), or delayed effects (reputation).
In what sense and to what extent do currently proposed mechanisms and agent behaviors consider self-interest?
The new government policies were now challenging dentists' small business self-interest as well as the professional ideology that defined their notions of patient interest.
It guards against legislative self-interest by pitting one set of legislators against the other, neutralizing one ambition with another.
However, the relevant considerations will not necessarily be limited to (or even relate at all to) how well these packages serve the individual's self-interest.
Neither is corruption a by-product of ruthless capitalism, which promotes self-interest and maximum economic growth as opposed to the interests of the community.
In so doing, they were motivated as much by self-interest as patriotic duty.
The effect of the unremitting self-interest of this sphere is to drive more and more of the characters into varieties of non-existence.
According to the rational actor model in economics, people are solely motivated by self-interest.
Conversely, highly competitive individuals may trust each other to act in ways that further their collective self-interest.
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