| 词汇 | self-interested |
| 释义 | self-interested adjective uk /ˌselfˈɪn.tres.tɪd/ us /ˌselfˈɪn.trɪ.stɪd/ considering the advantage to yourself when making decisions, and deciding to do what is best for you: 自私自利的 self-interested arguing基于私利的争吵 Classical economics assumes that humans are rational, self-interested individuals.古典经济学假设人类是理性的、自私的个体。 See self-interest He violently denounced their callous and self-interested behaviour. Good behaviour may spring from other self-interested motives. I don't care if he's doing it out of the goodness of his heart, or if he's totally self-interested. Selfishness egocentric egocentrically egocentricity egoism egoistic egotistically hoggish hoggishly inconsiderate inconsiderately self self-absorbed self-absorption self-centred self-centredly self-serving self-servingly selfish selfishly selfishness Examples of self-interestedself-interested Because of this strategic time-inconsistency, rational, self-interested agents are unlikely to profit from mutually advantageous bargains. Empirical reports on scientific competition show that scientists can be depicted as self-interested, strategically behaving agents. Such tendencies can lead to myopically self-interested political interventions into policymaking and public administration, with economically damaging consequences. Multinational companies have always been regarded as self-interested superpowers that profit by exploiting the resources of developing countries. Analytical models of self-interested producers, welfare maximizers, and mixed economic and administrative instruments are presented. Uncertain rewards, self-interested agents and a potential lack of trust while coordinating add further obstacles to the process. Perhaps we might best call such failures to be perfectly good ' reasonably self-interested ' or ' expedient ' failures. This brings us to the central question motivating the present study: why self-interested politicians would ever voluntarily limit their own power? However, if the offeree is rational, and believed that the offeror is rational and self-interested, the offeror is unlikely to benefit from such arrangements. Such altruism does not necessarily preclude a preoccupation with self-interested internal occupational stratification, but there is little evidence that this was a significant motive. Using cooperative agents in a self-interested negotiation context results in absurd behavior of the agents. On a traditional interpretation of that framework, characterized by instrumentalist, self-interested voting, the arguments for representation are typically weak and second-best in nature. And they miss the point precisely because of the assumption of instrumental, self-interested voters. His words and deeds defined the bad citizen inversely : one who succumbed to self-interested ambition and subordinated the public good to the personal. He presents a technique where clans are formed as part of a self-interested activity to increase local utility or decrease the probability of failure. See all examples of self-interested These examples are from corpora and from sources on the web. Any opinions in the examples do not represent the opinion of the Cambridge Dictionary editors or of Cambridge University Press or its licensors. |
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